(Is It) Bad Christian Art?
During his teaching at Denver Community Church this past Sunday, Dave Neuhausel, our Pastor of Outreach, referenced an article that addressed Christian Art. In the article titled, "Bad Christian Art," Tony Woodlief reflected on why Christian movies are considered "awful" by many.
His contention is that "bad art derives, like bad literary theory, from bad theology." From there he shares the ways in which this is seen in Christian art.
What are your thoughts about Christian Art? Is it bad? Can it be redeemed? Is Christian a bad adjective in describing art?
Take a moment and read the article, and share some thoughts.
Bad Christian Art
by Tony Woodlief
“Why,” asks the title of a recent movie review by Salon writer Andrew O’Hehir, “are Christian movies so awful?” He asks this after watching Soul Surfer, a film targeted at American evangelicals, about a one-armed surfer girl. It’s supposed to be a true story, insofar as anything can be true once it has been plucked from the web of human interdependence and stretched across a fifty-foot screen.