false 136814 7 <I>Walking on Water</I> collects 12 brief meditations by Madeleine L'Engle on the nature of art and its relation to faith. L'Engle, the beloved author of <I>A Wrinkle In Time</I> among others, has written and spoken widely and wisely about the connection between religion and art. The gist of her understanding is as follows: <blockquote>To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory. It is what makes me respond to the death of an apple tree, the birth of a puppy, northern lights shaking the sky, by writing stories.</blockquote> She believes that "[b]asically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.'" And "incarnation," in L'Engle's view, means "God's revelation of himself through particularity." In this book there is some slippage between L'Engle's autobiographical and critical voices. As a result, she often claims Christian significance for works whose meaning is not intentionally Christian. She admits this freely: <blockquote>[B]ecause I am a struggling Christian, it's inevitable that I superimpose my awareness of all that happened in the life of Jesus upon what I'm reading, upon Buber, upon Plato, upon the Book of Daniel. But I'm not sure that's a bad thing. To be truly Christian means to see Christ everywhere, to know him as all in all.</blockquote> <I>-- Michael Joseph Gross</I> 1136355 1980 Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (Wheaton Literary Series) total:814|5:456|4:238|3:100|2:16|1:4| 814 3568 1175 110 4 0 false false Wed Aug 05 10:30:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 10:38:13 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue May 08 09:01:48 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 11:16:14 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 14:32:44 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 17 22:35:47 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 06:54:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 07:05:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Feb 26 17:09:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 17:58:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 12:58:04 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 22:36:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 23:09:42 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 13:47:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 27 20:34:12 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 04 17:23:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Jan 05 19:16:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 19:18:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 12:00:16 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 12:42:09 -0700 2009
The creative act is an escape from the power of time and ascent to the divine...

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There's plenty to disagree with, especially in the first portion of the book. Once she really moves onto the portion of the book about art and its relationship to faith, it is an amazing b...more...]]>