Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture
10 best books like Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture (Makoto Fujimura): Silence, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society, Art & the Bible, The Imputation of Adam's Sin, Living with Pattern: Color, Texture, and Print at Home, Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home, State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe, Adam in the New Testament: Mere Teaching Model or First Historical Man?, Hearing Jesus Speak Into Your Sorrow
| Author | Shūsaku Endō |
| ISBN | 0800871863 |
“Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.”
Japanese Painting by an unknown artist of the Christian Martyrs of Nagasaki.
The...
In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as...
The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521026 |
The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry...
| Author | Francis A. Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 0877844437 |
The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts," writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God." Many Christians, wary of creating graven images, have steered clear of artistic...
The Imputation of Adam's Sin
| Author | John Murray |
| ISBN | 0875523412 |
Professor John Murray (Systematic Theology professor at Princeton, then Westminster Theological Seminary) is one of my favorite theologians. This is not because he is easy to read; he is not. Rather it is because Murray always provides insightful Biblical analysis while being succinct – no small...
Living with Pattern: Color, Texture, and Print at Home
| Author | Rebecca Atwood |
| ISBN | 0553459457 |
If you focus on pattern, from texture and color to furniture and textiles, everything else will fall into place.
Pattern is the strongest element in any room. In Living with Pattern, Rebecca Atwood demystifies how to use that element, a design concept that often confounds and confuses,...
Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home
| Author | Rebecca Atwood |
| ISBN | 1524763454 |
Discover inspiration from the most colorful homes in America with this vibrant lookbook and style manual that brings the magic of color into your home--from the author of Living with Pattern
Personalizing your color palette may be one of the most important decisions you make in your home....
State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe
| Author | Gene Edward Veith Jr. |
| ISBN | 0891076085 |
We cannot escape the arts. They permeate our lives and our culture--the dEcor, architecture, music, entertainment, everyday utensils. The imagination of this age, its ideas and concerns, percolate throughout the culture via the arts. These ideas affect us for good or for evil. The choice is not whether...
Adam in the New Testament: Mere Teaching Model or First Historical Man?
| Author | Richard B. Gaffin |
| ISBN | 1596385227 |
Versteeg shows clearly that the New Testament writers thought Adam was a historical man standing at the beginning of the human race. He looks at Romans 5, I Corinthians 15, Luke 3, I Timothy 2, and Jude. These are the only places Adam is mentioned in the NT. In all these passages Adam is treated as a historical...
Hearing Jesus Speak Into Your Sorrow
| Author | Nancy Guthrie |
| ISBN | 1414325487 |
In this paradigm-shifting book, Nancy Guthrie gently invites readers to lean in along with her to hear Jesus speak understanding and insight into the lingering questions we all have about the hurts of life: What was God's involvement in this, and why did he let it happen? Why hasn't God answered my prayers...
"The only thing more gratifying to find than a good book is a good book which has been neglected." Phyllis Rose, literary biographer
"Aunt Sarah's good sense stepped in: she thought it better that young married women should have a fixed income, whatever it might be called, pin-money or...
The Secret Lives of Color
| Author | Kassia St. Clair |
| ISBN | 0143131141 |
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow...
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace.
Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty’s Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty’s...
Addicted to Mediocrity: Contemporary Christians and the Arts
| Author | Frank Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 0891073531 |
In this provocative book, Franky Schaeffer shows how Christians today have sacrificed the artistic prominence they enjoyed for centuries and settled instead for mediocrity. The evidence for this sad state of affairs abounds. We are flooded with "Christian" doodads, trinkets, t-shirts, bumper...
Claude Monet's Water Lilies
| Author | Anette Robinson |
| ISBN | 9782359882 |
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The Madonna of the Mountains
| Author | Elise Valmorbida |
| ISBN | 0399592431 |
An epic and inspiring novel about one woman's survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside, oppressed by both a patriarchal society and by Mussolini's iron-fist rule, but determined to protect her family throughout the war--by any means possible.
A sweeping saga about womanhood,...
Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts
| Author | Steve Turner |
| ISBN | 0830822917 |
Imagine art that is risky, complex and subtle! Imagine music, movies, books and paintings of the highest quality! Imagine art that permeates society, challenging conventional thinking and standard morals to their core! Imagine that it is all created by Christians! This is the bold vision of Steve...
| Author | Scott Snyder |
| ISBN | 1401277322 |
The Dark Multiverse is coming, and nothing will ever be the same! One of the biggest events in DC history is here in the shocking, action-packed epic Dark Nights: Metal from critically acclaimed author Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, reuniting after their smash-hit Batman series.
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