Summary

The eyes have good work to do in worship, and it’s not as easy as opening and closing them.

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Details

This workshop will look at ways that visuality and visual art might operate within a context of corporate worship in a manner that resonates both with a biblical perspective on “seeing” and a Trinitarian regard for the visual dimension of creation.

Presented by W. David O. Tayler at the 2013 Calvin Symposium on 91.

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