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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

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.