The Artistic Sphere

Acknowledgments Introduction Roger D. Henderson and Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker Part One: Roots 1. Geneva's Artistic Legacy: From Calvin to Today Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker 2. Calvin and the Arts: Pure Vision or Blind Spot? Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin 3. Rumors of Glory: Abraham Kuyper's Neo-Calvinist Theory of Art Roger D. Henderson 4. Dooyeweerd's Aesthetics Roger D. Henderson Part Two: Art History 5. Art, Meaning, and Truth Hans R. Rookmaaker Looking with Historical Depth: Hugo van der Goes, Filippino Lippi and Albrecht Dürer 6. The Vocation of a Christian Art Historian: Strategic Choices in a Multicultural Context E. John Walford Ridentem dicere verum-Pieter Bruegel's Peasant Wedding of Circa 1567 7. More than Can Be Seen: Tim Rollins and K.O.S.'s I See the Promised Land James Romaine Part Three: Aesthetics 8. The Halo of Human Imaginativity Calvin Seerveld The Meaning of the Crucifixion: Grünewald and Perugino 9. Rethinking Art Nicholas Wolterstorff The Social Protest Meaning of the Graphic Art of Käthe Kollwitz 10. Imagination, Art, and Civil Society: Re-envisioning Reformational Aesthetics Lambert Zuidervaart Redemptive Art Criticism 11. Art, Body, and Feeling: New Roads for Neo-Calvinist Aesthetics Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin Chris Ofili: Contemporary Art and the Return of Religion Part Four: Theology and Art 12. The Theology of Art of Gerardus van der Leeuw and Paul Tillich Wessel Stoker 13. The Elusive Quest for Beauty William Edgar 14. Fifty-Plus Years of Art and Theology: 1970 to Today Victoria Emily Jones Bios of Authors Figure Credits General Index Scripture Index