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.

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 of the 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.