Reading List

Theological Aesthetics reading list:

Start here–

• Art Needs No Justification by Hans R Rookmaaker
• Art and the Bible (IVP Classics) by Francis A. Schaeffer
• Art for God’s Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts by Philip Graham Ryken
• For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts by W. David O. Taylor

Then read both:

• Modern Art and the Death of a Culture by H. R. Rookmaaker
• God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art by Daniel A. Siedell

Additional reading…

• The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Letters to a Diminished Church by Dorothy Sayers
• Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch
• The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts by Leland Ryken
• The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing by Leland Ryken
• Art in Action: Towards a Christian Aesthetic by Nicholas Wolterstorff
• Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle
• Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture by Makoto Fujimura