God in the Gallery (Cultural Exegesis): A Christian Embrace of Modern Art

In the Christian faith it’s almost a philosophical principle that the universal is known through the particular and the abstract through the concrete.

John Cobb, in commenting on the history of art from the Byzantine age to the present, says that “the power that can transform, redeem, unify and order has moved in a continuous process from a transcendent world into the inner being of artists themselves.”