David Jones and the Craft of Theology

This is an imaginative exploration of the art of David Jones which addresses Christian teaching through engagement with selected artistic works: a poem a painted inscription and a wood engraving. Elizabeth R. Powell's study does not just enable readers to understand Jones but also to use his kind of loving attention in their own lives - which Jones would argue is theology's most important task.<br/><br/>Through close readings of material objects Powell draws the reader into the participatory performative and dialogical possibilities of the craft of theology. She frames an older style of theology in a distinctive and modern way as a graced human practice and a place of transforming relation with the divine. Powell argues that Jones's art works offer places of beauty in which to 'become beauty' along the way. Located at the cross-section of theology literature and the arts this volume shows that being interdisciplinary is nothing less than finding ways for theology and humanity to be more richly itself.