Abstract
This essay discusses the role of the visual arts in articulating Christian ‘Wisdom’ within a predominantly secular post-Christian, post-modern, Western culture. It also assesses the role of museums and ‘heritage’ culture in both the de-sacralization of Christian art and in the emergence of art itself as what Tillich called, ‘one form of the latent church’. Should we therefore try to re-calibrate for the twenty-first century the historical relationship of art to faith – and vice versa – within the Christian tradition, or should we start again ‘from where we are’?
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