The Artist Alive: Explorations in Music Art and Theology

About this book

Are songwriters painters filmmakers and other artists modern-day prophets in society and church? Can art be a vehicle of hope stirring that wondrous if elusive capacity in human beings to imagine a more just humane and joyful future? Through critical and contemplative engagement with classics in music film literature and visual arts Christopher Pramuks The Artist Alive: Explorations in Music Art & Theology invites us to explore these and other questions. Attentive to the deep longings of the human and spiritual journey Pramuk posits the arts as a doorway into the life of spirit and sacred presence. Rather than proposing answers he outlines a way of seeing hearing and praying through some of lifes most enduring spiritual and theological questions. With more than a dozen case studies featuring various artists prompts for contemplative practices and a focus on todays most urgent social and spiritual issues The Artist Alive weaves a spirituality of wonder resistance and hope: a prophetic response to the utilitarian militarized marketplace vision of reality that bears down upon and dehumanizes so many in our time. Through loving examination of artists and their art Pramuk convincingly conveys the possibility of a more humane and joyful way of being in the world.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????