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Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts Paperback – April 3 2006

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The creation sings to us with the visual beauty of God’s handiwork. But what of man-made art? Much of it is devoid of sacred beauty and is often rejected by Christians. Christian artists struggle to find acceptance within the church.
If all of life is to be viewed as “under the lordship of Christ,” can we rediscover what God’s plan is for the arts? Philip Graham Ryken brings into sharp focus a biblical view of the arts and the artists who make art for God’s sake. This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the major issue of the arts for all who seek answers.
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What does God say about the arts? Can you be a Christian and an artist? How do the arts impact your church?

The creation sings to us with the visual beauty of God's handiwork. But what of man-made art? Much of it is devoid of sacred beauty and is often rejected by Christians. Christian artists struggle to find acceptance within the church.

If all of life is to be viewed as "under the lordship of Christ," can we rediscover what God's plan is for the arts? Philip Graham Ryken brings into sharp focus a biblical view of the arts and the artists who make art for God's sake. This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the major issue of the arts for all who seek answers.

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Theologically rich and remarkably readable, this book offers sound biblical reasons to cultivate a sense of beauty.--Nancy Pearcey, author of Total Truth

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Philip Graham Ryken is president of Wheaton College. He is Bible teacher for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, speaking nationally on the radio program Every Last Word. Dr. Ryken was educated at Wheaton College, Westminster Theological Seminary, and the University of Oxford, where he received his doctorate in historical theology. He and his wife, Lisa, have five children.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ P & R Publishing (April 3 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596380071
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1596380073
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 91 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.72 x 0.76 x 21.08 cm
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Philip Graham Ryken (PhD, University of Oxford) is the 8th president of Wheaton College and, prior to that, served as senior minister at Philadelphia’s historic Tenth Presbyterian Church. He has written several books for Crossway, and has lectured and taught at universities and seminaries worldwide. Dr. Ryken and his wife, Lisa, live in Wheaton and have five children.

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Robbie Pruitt
5.0 out of 5 stars Art for God's Sake: A perfect rationale for the arts
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Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts, by Philip Graham Ryken is a solid resource, which aids in nurturing a deeper understanding of the arts and assists in cultivating a Biblical worldview and theology of the arts.

Art for God's Sake is an unassuming, simple, and easy to read book about recovering the arts and restoring them to their right place in God's kingdom for God's kingdom purposes, and to God's own Glory. Ryken summarizes his work, "This is the Christian view of art: the artist is called and gifted by God-who loves all kinds of art; who maintains high aesthetic standards for goodness, truth, and beauty; and whose glory is art's highest goal."

Ryken proposes that art has a redeeming purpose in God's plan and that art deals in the currency of reality and truth. This reality should include the hopeful aspects that the gospel narrative gives us. Ryken says, "Christian art is redemptive, and this is its highest purpose. Art is always an interpretation of reality, and the Christian should interpret reality in its total aspect, including the hope that has come into the world through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ."

Philip Graham Ryken assesses the importance and the value of art in God's world saying, "At its best, art is able to satisfy our deep longing for beauty and communicate profound spiritual, intellectual, and emotional truth about the world that God has made for His glory." Not only is the aesthetical value of art highlighted here, but also the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and truth-value as well.

The majority of the book, Art for God's Sake, looks at these themes and God's calling and equipping of the visual artists Bezalel and Oholiab in Exodus 31. From this passage and these two artists, Ryken uncovers four fundamental principles for a Christian theology of the arts.

The four fundamental principles for a Christian theology of the arts are:

1. The artist's call and gift come from God.
2. God loves all kinds of art.
3. God maintains high standards of goodness, truth, and beauty.
4. Art is for the glory of God.
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Ben Riggs-Apex
4.0 out of 5 stars What hath Christ to do with Rembrandt?
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I'm not sure anyone has specifically asked that question, but the Church- for better and worse- has gone back in forth in answering something like it.

This book is great, not the best, but great. I don't think one book is going to say everything when it comes to this topic. That being said, it's an excellent contribution to a conversation that sorely needs more silence.

This book isn't a rant on behalf of chipped off and burned out artists. Nor is it a comfortable book to read; Christian art has sat all too cozy in its bookstores.

This book rather is a call to the Church for the artists and art appreciators. To come back to some square ones in understanding the arts and to make forward momentum in the Church moving towards the arts.

God is The Artist and The art appreciator. He calls artists, equips artists, loves art, has aesthetic standards for art and has given us art for His glory. That's the jist of the book. Taking us into specific areas of Scripture where see this (Exodus, Psalms), but also to see how the narrative of Scripture provides us with the compelling and vibrant worldview to see and understand the arts. Ryken is a pastor and college president, so his viewpoint is fairly compelling. This isn't just some Joe Shmoe who got an itch in the right spot after reading the Bible.

I wish there were an option for "4.5" stars. This book does a great job getting after what it seems to say it will. I do wish that Ryken (and I know he could have as a skillful pro in the Bible) would have teased out more concerning us as image bearers, the call to cultivate creation and the implications of that regards the arts- especially for those of us who aren't called to be artists vocationally. This book does a great job arguing for the arts as vocation, but tips the hat a bit too slightly to the majority of us who like being creative, but won't be (and shouldn't be) paid for it.

I definitely recommend this.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2017
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Despite others crits I found it brief but very helpful.
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Hello Killy
5.0 out of 5 stars A G-d's Eye View of the Arts
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2008
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Dr. Philip G. Ryken [...]

offers a profoundly simple and highly practicle approach to an ever increasing need for good christian arts in cafe, stage, gallery, musuem, church, and/or home. In an ever changing world where lines all blur from art, medicine, science, new media, and technology dare we consider a view from the unchanging great "I AM" as central to our being and Art itself?

The need and desire to create art has always existed in man regardless of age, faith, creed, or sex and regardless of utility/gestalt, sacred/profane, and/or symbolic/representational intent.

This book traces the very steps back to the first and greatest Artist: God. And it recalls the account of the first divine calling for man to Create art, not for the sake of art but as the duty to G-d and his fellow man.

Those who are chosen for lives dedicated to the Arts in all its forms will be kindly instructed and soundly inspired by the contents of "Art for God's Sake". This book offers a G-d's eye view of the arts and its significance to the artist, the culture, and G-d Himself.

"Art for God's Sake" is a delightful and insightful read that will illuminate your mind like a jewel, making undim and vivid a brilliant new approach to the arts. Discover what really lies in the eye of the most high beholder. Will you answer the challenge/call to reclaim the arts and do all things in His name and for His Glory?
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