George Pattison offers theological reflections on a range of works of art and films which have attracted wide discussion such as Anthony Gormley's 'Angel of the North'. Pattison takes seriously the modernist movement in art and constitutes an argument for its continuing relevance. The book centres on artists active in the mid- to late twentieth century, whose work reflects both the cultural and social crises of that era - Beuys, Rothko, Kiefer, Natkin and film directors such as Berg...
This book seeks to address the contemporary crisis of theology, asking what future there can be in a sit uation of intellectual pluralism for an academic discipline that is rooted in the life and teaching of the Christian chu rch. '
