Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith — now in paperback

We are happy to share that APT member Alan Smith’s book, Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith, co-authored with Ruth Illman, is now out in paperback from Routledge.
“This book brings the emerging fields of practical theology and theology of the arts into a dialogue beyond the bias of modern systematic and constructive theology. The authors draw upon postmodern, post-secular, feminist, liberation, and dialogical/dialectical philosophy and theology, and their critiques of the narrow modern emphases on reason and the scientific method, as the model for all knowledge. Such a practical theology of the arts focuses the work of theology on the actual practices that engage the arts in their various forms as the means of interpreting and understanding the nature of the communities and their members, as well as the mechanisms through which these communities engage in transformative work, to make persons and neighborhoods whole.”
This site takes you to the paperback.