Art & religion
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- Art & religion
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- Its Art
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- 1921
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Art & religion
Author: Vogt, Von Ogden, 1879-
Year: 1921
Table of Contents I. Introduction 1 Truth, goodness, and beauty. The new age. The close of the Reformation age. Protestant negation of the arts. Catholic acceptance of modernism. The art of worship the all- comprehending art. Proposals for examining the connectio ns' of art and religion, historical, psychological, and practical. Proposals of liturgical principles and materials. Proposals for architectural style, tone, significance, and tendencies. Current writings about the new age. II. An Age Described by Its Art 9 No satisfactory art in a nondescript age. The arts born of the national and time spirit. The relations of art to unified life. The youth, size, and complexity of American life. The coming description. III. The Unity of Religion and Art 18 Religion the source of primitive arts. Religion the principal subject matter of historic art. The inner identity of the mystic and aesthetic experience. The demand for unity in composition and in reality. The feeling of satisfaction derived from beauty and from being. The creativity of art and of religion? IV. The Cleft between Art and Religion 34 1. The cleft between religion and science. 2. The cleft between religion and morals. 3. T