Exploring the Connection Between Art and Faith: A Theology of Creation

Siggy: If you are a Christian and you love art, you will enjoy this book. A friend recommended it to me and I’m glad he did.

United States on Aug 11, 2023

Amazon Customer: Recommended by a dear friend and I could not put it down. Loved this thoughtful and insightful book. I already purchased two more to give as gifts!

United States on May 04, 2023

Sam D: While reading I’m struggling to follow the train of thought due to the way it’s written, I’m only getting moments of clarity every now and then. Disappointed as I was really looking forward to this book.

United Kingdom on Aug 29, 2022

Justin Wiggins: Art & Faith A Theology of Making by the brilliant Japanese visual artist and writer Makoto Fujimura, is an amazing book about the importance of art to our human tribe, the discipline it takes to be an artist, the healing power of art, a critique of naturalism, rapture theology, and how The Great Artist, Christ, brings healing through our sufferings and struggles, brings us joy, and sustains us with His agape love.
I liked Fujimura's conversational writing style, his references to Emily Dickinson, T.S.Eliot, N.T.Wright, C.S.Lewis, his moving story of becoming an artist and embracing faith, and there are some valuable truths and moving quotes that I have been reflecting on and incorporating into my life.
I finished the book today for the Hugin and Munin read and drink mead book club a friend and I started a few years ago. A recent conversation we had about the book was quite enriching and spiritually nourishing.
I highly recommend it.

United States on Jun 27, 2022

Karl D. Stephan: Makoto Fujimura is a world-class artist who is both Japanese and Christian, an unusual combination in itself. In a deep and wide-ranging consideration of how art and faith relate to each other, to the human person, and to our ultimate fate before God, Fujimura lays out a new path for Christianity that would truly "make all things new." Not the new that advertisements are constantly trying to make us buy into, but something that is original both to us and to the universe, that will grow from our feeble fallible efforts into a thing of truth and beauty in the kingdom of God. This is not easy or light reading, but will reward the persistent pursuer of truth and beauty with a unique vision that deserves to be better known.

United States on Mar 31, 2022

Amazon Customer: Short on Art and long on faith

United Kingdom on Dec 11, 2021

Mr. James W. Lyle: Some wonderful orthodox arguments toward very unorthodox creative ends. This is very BIG PICTURE and abstract... a little like Makotos art!) with not much nuts and bolts - but perhaps that is intentional and appropriate - it does leave you yearning for more real world applications of this kind of thinking. Keen to read some of his other works as this is his first that I've read.

Australia on Aug 10, 2021

Amazon Customer: good to find a book by an artist I like v much. still reading.

United Kingdom on Jun 06, 2021

Shann Ray: Mako is among the most devoted artists of this generation. His art transcends. His life and his art gives others such love and joy, such peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and embodied action for the common good. In this book, you'll find deep waters and if you enter in and release into the mystery he helps name, your own life and the lives of those you love, dare I say your soul and the souls of others, will find unity that heals all fracture, and the kind of light and fusion that leads to greater life, greater care, and greater love. Thank you, Mako, for calling forth a community of people, artists, and life that echoes Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Beloved Community. Thank you for your humble vision of the mysteries of God in the life of all, and for the beauty of love in its capacity to heal the heart of the world.

United States on Jan 18, 2021