ABUNDANTLY MORE:
The Theological Promise of the Arts in a Reductionist World
By Jeremy S. Begbie
Baker Academic. 251 pages. £26.09
ISBN 978 1 540 965 431
This book starts with the theme, highlighted by a number of recent writers, that the Enlightenment has led to a reduced way of understanding the world, which in turn fails to account for our lived experience. Christianity, by contrast, not only makes sense of, but celebrates, richness and diversity in creation and society.
But the author, as the title indicates, wants also to show that the arts not only support the Christian refutation of reductivism, but can themselves enrich our knowledge of our Lord and the life He has given us.
