Naming the Spirit: Pneumatology Through the Arts

"This book aims to show how the Christian doctrine of Pneumatology can both illuminate and be illuminated by an engagement with the arts. Drawing on specific examples from a wide range of media-music, poetry, visual art, film, and landscape architecture-each chapter seeks to deepen our understanding of a particular name for the Holy Spirit as it relates to the Spirit's distinctive work in the world. Each chapter likewise shows how a concerted engagement with a biblically centered theology of the Holy Spirit can enrich our understanding of art's distinctive capacity to help us to inhabit our world more faithfully and to engage it more fruitfully"-- Provided by publisher.