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Supplying Theology's Missing Link
Author(s) -
Brown David
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/nbfr.12541
Subject(s) - link (geometry) , dimension (graph theory) , ask price , the arts , epistemology , sociology , theology , aesthetics , philosophy , law , political science , computer science , computer network , mathematics , economy , pure mathematics , economics
Abstract This essay argues that there is a serious deficiency in all sub‐disciplines of theology, in their failure to ask the further question of how any of them might then seriously engage the believer in their conclusions. Philosophy of religion, biblical studies and systematic theology are surveyed in turn, to explore further the nature of this missing link, in imaginative engagement. While visual art is used to illustrate how this could be provided, it is not claimed that this is the only way that this could be achieved, only that it is a largely ignored dimension in much contemporary discussion of the arts.