Art, God, and Salvation: Interviews With Trevor Hart
By Trevor Hart
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This is a transcript of three interviews done in Scotland for the video series You're Included. Dr. Hart talks about art and imagination in the church, the revelation of God that we have in Jesus Christ, and what salvation is.
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Art, God, and Salvation - Trevor Hart
Art, God, and Salvation:
Interviews With Trevor Hart
Copyright 2016 Grace Communion International
Published by Grace Communion International
Table of Contents
Art and Imagination in the Church
God the Father, Reflected in Jesus Christ
Zooming in on Salvation
About the Publisher…
Grace Communion Seminary
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Introduction
This is a transcript of interviews conducted as part of the You’re Included series, sponsored by Grace Communion International. We have more than 130 interviews available. You may watch them or download video or audio at https://learn.gcs.edu/course/view.php?id=58. Donations in support of this ministry may be made at https://www.gci.org/online-giving/.
Grace Communion International is in broad agreement with the theology of the people we interview, but GCI does not endorse every detail of every interview. The opinions expressed are those of the interviewees. We thank them for their time and their willingness to participate.
Please understand that when people speak, thoughts are not always put into well-formed sentences, and sometimes thoughts are not completed. In the following transcripts, we have removed occasional words that did not seem to contribute any meaning to the sentence. In some cases we could not figure out what word was intended. We apologize for any transcription errors, and if you notice any, we welcome your assistance.
Our guest in these interviews is Dr. Trevor Hart, Professor of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews in Edinburgh, Scotland. He received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 1989. Among his books are:
Art, Imagination and Christian Hope: Patterns of Promise(with Gavin Hopps and Jeremy Begbie)
At the Cross(with Richard Bauckham)
Between the Image and the Word: Theological Engagements With Imagination, Language, and Literature
Christ in Our Place: The Humanity of God in Christ for the Reconciliation of the World: Essays Presented to James B. Torrance(edited with Daniel Thimell)
Dictionary of Historical Theology(editor)
Faith Thinking: The Dynamics of Christian Theology
Faithful Performances(with Steven Guthrie and Ivan Khovacs)
Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium(with Richard Bauckham)
In His Was Life: The Person and Work of Christ
Justice the True and Only Mercy: Essays on the Life and Theology of Peter Taylor Forsyth
Making Good: Creation, Creativity, and Artistry
Regarding Karl Barth: Toward a Reading of His Theology
Theatrical Theology: Explorations in Performing the Faith(co-authored with Wesley Vander Lugt)
Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature and Theology (with Ivan Khovacs)
The Waiting Father: Thomas Erskine of Linlathen
The interviews were conducted by Dr. J. Michael Feazell, then vice-president of Grace Communion International.
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Art and Imagination in the Church
Introduction: St. Andrews, Scotland, is known as the birthplace of golf some 600 years ago. Here also stand the 850-year-old ruins of the Cathedral of St. Andrew, three of whose 100-feet-high towers rise majestically over the east end of the city. Nearby, the esteemed University of St. Andrews, founded in 1413, is the home of St. Mary’s College, the university’s renowned divinity school, which still uses its 16th century buildings.
In College Hall, a room within one of those buildings, You’re Included host J. Michael Feazell, Vice-President of Grace Communion International, interviews Dr. Trevor Hart. Dr. Hart is Professor of Divinity and Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Faith Thinking: The Dynamics of Christian Theology, Regarding Karl Barth: Toward a Reading of His Theology, and Hope Against Hope, which he co-authored with Richard Bauckham.
J. Michael Feazell: Thanks for joining us today. We’d like to ask about historical Christian art. How has it helped to shape how Christians view doctrine and practice?
Trevor Hart: Much more than many Christians often suppose and realize, art has had a central place in the church for many centuries. At the time of the Reformation, and for very good reasons, there were some questions asked about certain ways of using art in church. Those remain important. But art has always been a way in which Christians have interpreted and made sense of the gospel.
There are lots of ways in which as human beings we make sense of things. We tell stories… Art such as painting, music, drama,