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ART AS THEOLOGY
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“WE HAVE TO WORK HARDER to develop a profound theology of the woman. The
feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions. The challenge
today is this: to think about the specific place of women also in those places where
the authority of the church is exercised for various areas of the church.”
Pope FrancisInterview: “A Big Heart Open to God” in America Antonio Spadaro, S.J., Issue Sep., 30, 2013
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ART AS THEOLOGY
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“ART IS ABLE TO LIBERATE IMAGINATION and intelligence...from a
desacralised sense of reality, from the loss of a sense of transcendence,
from the feeling that reality is nothing more than an elaborate network of
inescapable causalities.”
Glenn Hughes“Lonergan and Art” in Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia (Portugal) Ed. João J. Vila-Chã Volume 63, Number 4, 2007 (183-92)
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ART AS THEOLOGY
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“ARTISTIC CREATION and appreciation is a manifestation of the human
desire to know. We are questioners by nature, and art is one of the modes of
ourquestioning, wondering, exploring.... Art can also function as an antidote
to ideological and propagandistic thought [that] straitjackets experiences into
pre-set theoretical categories or approved conceptual channels.”
Glenn Hughes“Lonergan and Art” in Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia (Portugal) Ed. João J. Vila-ChãVolume 63, Number 4, 2007 (183-92)
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ART AS THEOLOGY
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TITLED ‘METAXU’ (Greek for the word “between”), this diptych is inspired by
the story of Jacob’s wrestle with an ‘angel’ (Gen 32:24-31). Simone Weil uses
the Greek word ‘metaxu’ to describe the phenomenon that both separates and
connects; being ‘in between.’ In this painting ‘metaxu’ identifies the struggle
that separates Jacob from his former mis-identifiction of himself; his deceit and
self-deceit. Alone but not alone, engulfed by blood (symbol of heritage, violence,
sacrifice, combat, consecration) he encounters the darkest place within himself,
discovering a ‘luminous darkness.’ Wrestling suggests both physical engagement
and release: Jacob’s true identity, his true freedom, is won paradoxically by
dislocation. The propulsion towards encounter is the ‘way through’ to the divine.
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“WE MUST BE BOLD ENOUGH to discover new signs and new symbols,
new flesh to embody and communicate the word, and different forms of
beauty which are valued in different cultural settings, including those un-
conventional modes of beauty which may mean little to the evangelizers,
yet prove particularly attractive for others.”
Pope Francis Evangelii Gaudium, §167