The biblical themes of creation and new creation are inextricably bound to each other. For the God who created the world is the same God who recreates humanity in Jesus Christ and the same God who promises a new heaven and a new earth.

How might the relationship between creation and new creation be informed by and reflected in the arts? This volume, based on the DITA10 conference at Duke Divinity School, brings together reflections from theologians, biblical scholars, and artists to offer insights on God's first work, God's future work, and the future of the field of theology and the arts.

The Studies in Theology and the Arts series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.



W. David O. Taylor (ThD, Duke University) is associate professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of several books, including Prayers for the Pilgrimage, A Body of Praise, and Glimpses ofthe New Creation. In addition to a range of popular essays, he has published articles in the Calvin Theological Journal, Christian Scholar's Review, Worship, Theology Today, and Image Journal, among others. An Anglican priest, he has lectured widely on the arts, from Thailand to South Africa. In 2016 he produced a short film on the Psalms with Bono and Eugene Peterson.







Daniel Train (PhD, Baylor University) is assistant teaching professor of the practice of theology and the arts at Duke Divinity School, where he serves as the associate director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA). He is the coeditor of The Art of New Creation and The Saint John's Bible and Its Tradition: Illuminating Beauty in the Twenty-First Century.







Jeremy Begbie (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School, where he serves as the director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA). He is also a Senior Memberof Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is author of a number of books, including Music, Modernity, and God; A Peculiar Orthodoxy; Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts; Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music; Theology, Music and Time; Voicing Creation's Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts. He is also a professionally trained musician and an ordained minister of the Church of England.



Foreword by Natalie Carnes

Preface

Jeremy Begbie, Daniel Train, and W. David O. Taylor



Introduction: "There Before Us": New Creation in Theology and the Arts

Jeremy Begbie



Part I: Soundings

1. In God's Good Time: Poetry and the Rhythms of New Creation

Devon Abts

2. Sketching the Incarnation: Ephrem of Nisibis on the Theological Significance of the Artist's Craft

Charles Augustine Rivera

3. Love's New Creation: Reconciling Two Approaches to Theology and Arts

Daniel Train

4. Transcendence, the Arts, and New Creation: An Empirical Approach

Kutter Callaway

5. The Artist and the Environmental Crisis: A Paradigm for Human Living

Sara Schumacher

6. The White Savior as Diseased Creation: A Theological Diagnosis and Plea

Jacquelynn Price-Linnartz

7. Singing Ourselves into the Future: Worship and the New Creation

W. David O. Taylor

8. A Singing Creation: Music Making and Christian Maturity in Colossians 3:16

Amy Whisenand Krall



Part II: Conversations

9. Placemaking for New Creation

Jennifer Allen Craft and Norman Wirzba

10. We Flourish in a Syncopated Peace: Creation and New Creation in Micheal O'Siadhail's The Five Quintets

Richard Hays and Micheal O'Siadhail

11. Creation and New Creation in J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis

Malcolm Guite and Judith Wolfe

12. Reflections on Performing: Living into the New Creation

Elizabeth Klein and Shadwa Mussad



Part III: Arts in Action

13. Leah Glenn, Dancer

14. Lanecia A. Rouse Tinsley, Visual Artist

15. Steve Prince, Visual Artist

16. Linnéa Spransy Neuss, Visual Artist

17. Awet I. Andemicael, Musician



The Surprising Faithfulnessof God: A Sermon at DITA10

N. T. Wright



Bibliography

List of Contributors

Image Credits

General Index

Scripture Index