Thomas J. Terry - Images and Idols: Creativity for the Christian Life (Reclaiming Creativity)

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Praise for Images and Idols

This book is no ivory tower thought experiment. It is tested and proven, lived out in the real world and filled with timeless wisdom.

JASON PROPAGANDA PETTY

Rapper, poet, and speaker

What do creativity and art have to do with God? Quite a lot, actually. Images and Idols is a book that beautifully shows how faith and art are both stronger when they are in conversation. Theologically rich and yet totally approachable, this is a must-read book for artists and creatives of faith.

BRETT MCCRACKEN

Senior editor, The Gospel Coalition; author of Uncomfortable; Gray Matters; and Hipster Christianity

What has Hollywood to do with Jerusalem, the studio with the sanctuary? Everything. In Images and Idols , Thomas Terry and Ryan Lister take the reader on a journey across the storyline of Scripture, tracing the theme of creativity along the contours of redemptive history. Beginning in Eden, accounting for the fall of humanity, then intersecting the gospel, Terry and Lister demonstrate that creativity not only can be redeemed, but that it must be redeemed if the great Creator is to finish His goal of taking His re-created people to the new heavens and new earth. If you have any creative impulse at all, you should read this book. Christ-honoring and gospel-saturated, with plenty of helpful application, this is biblical theology at its finest.

TODD L. MILES

Professor of Theology, Western Seminary; author of Superheroes Cant Save You and A God of Many Understandings?

Images and Idols: Creativity for the Christian Life does something thats desperately neededit connects orthodoxy to art and creativity. Thomas and Ryan construct a solid bridge for the artist and theologian to meet in new ways by showing us that the greatest work for both parties is to know God deeply, the Beautiful One and Creator of all.

Sometimes a book hits you in such a way that you want to purchase it in bulk and give it to all your friends, hoping they too will have the same experience. This was one of those books for me. I praise God for Images and Idols and cannot wait to give it to all the artists I know.

ASHTON TRUJILLO

Filmmaker

How should we as evangelicals think about creativity, art, and beauty? Terry and Lister celebrate beauty and creativity, but they also situate them onto the proper theological landscape. Art, beauty, and creativity are for Gods sake and for His glory, since all creativity and beauty reflect the creativity and beauty of the Lord. Creativity is not disconnected from the biblical storyline, from creation, fall, redemption, and new creation, as Terry and Lister so eloquently remind us. A foundational book theologically for thinking about beauty, the arts, and creativity.

THOMAS R. SCHREINER

James Buchanan Harrison, Professor of New Testament Interpretation; Associate Dean, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; author of The King in His Beauty and Covenant and Gods Purpose for the World

Theology and creativity are intertwined because the subject of theologyGod Himselfis the most creative being in existence. One cannot seek to know Him fully without learning something about creativity along the way. Likewise, those who wish to be creative can find no better model than the maker of all things. This book provides pathways in both directions, revealing God as a Creator and all of humanity as creatives. Thomas and Ryan are faithful guides on these intertwining paths, inviting us to love both God and creativity better, and encouraging us to allow that love into better work for Gods kingdom and glory.

MIKE COSPER

Founder and director, Harbor Media and Narrativo Group

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Terry, Thomas J., author. | Lister, J. Ryan (John Ryan), 1978- author.

Title: Images and idols : creativity for the Christian life / Thomas J. Terry and J. Ryan Lister.

Description: Chicago : Moody Publishers, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018031605 (print) | LCCN 2018034331 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802497338 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802418487

Subjects: LCSH: Creative ability--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Christianity and the arts.

Classification: LCC BT709.5 (ebook) | LCC BT709.5 .T47 2018 (print) | DDC 233/.5--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018031605

ISBN: 978-0-8024-1848-7

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To my wife, Heather Leigh Terry

Selfless, helpful, gracious, and honest, wise, winsome, beautiful, and modest. The one God has most used to grow me in godliness.

To my mother, Jane Freeman Lister

Who knew Id write this book well before I did, and who (not-so) quietly prayed it into existence. I wish I could see the smile on your face.

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