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Master of Arts in English: Theology and Aesthetics

A guide to support the MA in English as they prepare to investigate the aesthetic, cultural, historical, and philosophical intersections between literature and Christianity and was originally created by Luba Zakharov.

Core Texts

Begbie, Jeremy.  Voicing Creations Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1991.

Brown, Frank Burch.  Good Taste, Bad Taste, & Christian Taste:  Aesthetics in Religious Life.  Oxford University Press, 2000.

Dillenberger, John.  A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities:  The Church and the Visual Arts.  New York: Crossroads, 1986.

De Gruchy, John W.  Christianity, Art and Transformation:  Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2001.