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Gene Veith

October 28, 2008 (24 mb, mp3 file) at the Center for Christian Study

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Artists sometimes describe the process of their work in terms of prayer.  The creators of icons, in particular, incorporate prayer in the making of their art, which, in turn, is used in prayer and itself becomes a kind of prayer.  Other kinds of art, though--including literature, music,  and treatments of the most secular-seeming topics -- can function in an analogous way, as an occasion for meditation and divine communion.

Gene Veith, a current columnist and a former culture editor of World Magazine, is the author of 18 books on Christianity and culture, classical education, literature, and the arts, including The Gift of Art: The Place of the Arts in Scripture and State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe.

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