Art and Faith: A Theology of Making

For The Four Holy Gospels project, to narrow my focus on this rather ambitious work, I chose to use the “pinhole” of John 11:35, the shortest verse in the Bible: “Jesus wept.” If God is self-sufficient, and Jesus was God’s only Son, then Jesus did not need us, nor did he need to weep over us. Jesus’s love extends beyond a utilitarian need to surviv

We see our existence and value only in terms of “fixing the world.” The gospel of a Creator who acts out of love, not necessity, liberates us from this bondage.

The deepest realm of knowledge is in Making, and, conversely, Making is the deepest integrated realm of knowing.

“It’s important to note that God does not obliterate the darkness; rather, God names it and limits it—puts boundaries on it. The boundary is the light.”8

that “a work of art is something new in the world that changes the world to allow itself to exist.”