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John Franklin’s Book Suggestions

A Sampling Bibliography on the Arts     Anderson, Cameron, J., The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts, Inter Varsity Press, 2016 Cameron is a former InterVarsity national leader and also a painter.  This book is an informative and thoughtful account of how art and faith have, at times, been in tension and how they have at other times found full cooperation.  Anderson is not only well-versed in the visual arts, he is insightful in his accounts.  Anderson, Jonathan A. and William Dyrness, Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism, Inter

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John Franklin: Faithfully Embracing the Artistic Imagination

John Franklin is the executive director of Imago, a national initiative in support of Christians in the arts in Canada. His special interest is in theology and the arts. John has taught philosophy at Tyndale College and theology at Tyndale Seminary and Trinity College at the Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto. He serves as chair of Lausanne Movement Canada, and is coordinator of the World Evangelical Alliance—Mission Commission’s Task Force on Art in Mission. John is also a writer, and contributes papers to conversations that make space for the arts and spirituality.

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