The biblical themes of creation and new creation are inextricably bound to each other. For the God who created the world is the same God who recreates humanity in Jesus Christ and the same God who promises a new heaven and a new earth.How might the relationship between creation and new creation be informed by and reflected in the arts? This volume, based on the DITA10 conference at Duke Divinity School, brings together reflections from theologians, biblical scholars, and artists to offer insights on God's first work, God's future work, and the future of the field of theology and the arts.The Studies in Theology and the Arts series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.

Jeremy Begbie (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School, where he serves as the director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA). He is also a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is author of a number of books, including Music, Modernity, and God; A Peculiar Orthodoxy; Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts; Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music; Theology, Music and Time; Voicing Creation's Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts. He is also a professionally trained musician and an ordained minister of the Church of England.Daniel Train (PhD, Baylor University) is assistant teaching professor of the practice of theology and the arts at Duke Divinity School, where he serves as the associate director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA). He is the co-editor of The Saint John's Bible and Its Tradition: Illuminating Beauty in the Twenty-First Century.W. David O. Taylor (ThD, Duke Divinity School) is associate professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and the producer of a short film on the psalms with Bono and Eugene Peterson. An ordained Anglican minister, he is the author of Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life, Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts, and The Theater of God's Glory: Calvin, Creation, and the Liturgical Arts, the co-editor of Contemporary Art and the Church, and the editor of For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts.

Foreword by Natalie Carnes
Preface
Jeremy Begbie, Daniel Train, andW. David O. Taylor
Introduction:"There Before Us": New Creation in Theology and the Arts
Jeremy Begbie
Part I: Soundings
1. In God's Good Time: Poetry and the Rhythms of New Creation
Devon Abts
2. Sketching the Incarnation: Ephrem of Nisibis on the Theological Significance of the Artist's Craft
Charles Augustine Rivera
3. Love's New Creation: Reconciling Two Approaches to Theology and Arts
Daniel Train
4. Transcendence, the Arts, and New Creation: An Empirical Approach
Kutter Callaway
5. The Artist and the Environmental Crisis: A Paradigm for Human Living
Sara Schumacher
6. The White Savior as Diseased Creation: A Theological Diagnosis and Plea
Jacquelynn Price-Linnartz
7. Singing Ourselves into the Future: Worship and the New Creation
W. David O. Taylor
8. A Singing Creation: Music Making and Christian Maturity in Colossians 3:16
Amy Whisenand Krall
Part II: Conversations
9. Placemaking for New Creation
Jennifer Allen Craft and Norman Wirzba
10. We Flourish in a Syncopated Peace: Creation and New Creation in Micheal O'Siadhail'sThe Five Quintets
Richard Hays and Micheal O'Siadhail
11. Creation and New Creation in J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis
Malcolm Guite and Judith Wolfe
12. Reflections on Performing: Living into the New Creation
Elizabeth Klein and Shadwa Mussad
Part III: Arts in Action
13.Leah Glenn, Dancer
14.Lanecia A. Rouse Tinsley, Visual Artist
15.Steve Prince, Visual Artist
16.Linnéa Spransy Neuss, Visual Artist
17.Awet I. Andemicael, Musician
The Surprising Faithfulness of God: A Sermon at DITA10
N. T. Wright
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Image Credits
General Index
Scripture Index