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Introductory:
- Cameron J. Anderson, The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts, InterVarsity Press - Downers Grove, Illinois, 2016.
- Cameron J. Anderson and G. Walter Hansen, eds., God in the Modern Wing: Viewing Art with Eyes of Faith. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2021.
- H. Brand and A. Chaplin, Art and Soul, Signposts for Christians in the Arts, Piquant – Carlisle, 2001.
- W.A. Dyrness, Visual Faith. Art, Theology and Worship in Dialogue, Baker Academic – Grand Rapids, 2001.
- Alastair Gordon, Why Art Matters: A Call for Christians to Create. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP, 2021.
- C. Kapikian: Art in Service of the Sacred, Abingdon Press, 2006.
- H.R. Rookmaaker: Art Needs No Justification, InterVarsity Press – Leicester UK, 1978.
- A. Rosen: Art and Religion in the 21st Century. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015.
- F.A. Schaeffer: Art and the Bible, InterVarsity Press – Downers Grove, 1973.
- L. Shaw: Breath for the Bones. Art, Imagination, and Spirit, Thomas Nelson – Nashville, 2007.
- S. Turner: Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts (revised and expanded), InterVarsity Press - Downers Grove - Illinois, 2016.
- J. Walford: Great Themes in Art, Prentice Hall – Upper Saddle River, 2002.
Christianity and visual art:
- Cameron J. Anderson and G. Walter Hansen, eds., God in the Modern Wing: Viewing Art with Eyes of Faith. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2021.
- F. Burch Brown: Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste. Oxford University Press – Oxford, 2000.
- N. Bustard (ed.): It Was Good, Making Art to the Glory of God, Square Halo Books – Baltimore, 2006 (2nd edition, revised and expanded).
- R. Caemmerer: Visual Art in the Life of the Church. Augsburg Press – Minneapolis, 1983.
- Jérôme Cottin: La mystique de l’art. Art et christianisme de 1900 à nos jours, Les Editions du Cerf - Paris, 2008.
- J. Craft: Placemaking and the Arts: Cultivating the Christian Life (Studies in Theology and the Arts), Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic/InterVarsity Press, 2018.
- A. Crouch: Culture Making. Recovering Our Creative Calling, IVP Books – Downers Grove, Ill., 2008.
- T. Dean and D. Porter (ed.): Art in Question, Marshall Pickering – Basingstoke, 1987.
- M. L’Engle: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Shaw Books – Wheaton, 1980.
- L. Gasque: Art and the Christian Mind: The Life and Work of H. R. Rookmaaker. Crossway – Chicago, 2005.
- Alastair Gordon, Why Art Matters: A Call for Christians to Create. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP, 2021.
- M. Hengelaar-Rookmaaker (ed.): H.R. Rookmaaker: The Complete Works 1-6, Piquant – Carlisle, 2003.
- Nicholas Holtam: The Art of Worship: Paintings, Prayers, and Readings for Meditation, National Gallery Company – London, 2011.
- Roger Homan: The Art of the Sublime: Principles of Christian Art and Architecture, London: Routledge, 2006, 2017.
- H.J. Hornik: The Art of Christian Reflection, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2018.
- R.M. Jensen: The Substance of Things Seen. Art, Faith, and the Christian Community, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 2004.
- Clyde S. Kilby: The Arts and the Christian Imagination: Essays on Art, Literature, and Aesthetics, Brewster, Massachusetts: Paraclete Press, 2017.
- Lausanne Occasional Paper No. 46: Redeeming the Arts, The Restoration of the Arts to God’s Creational Intention, Issue Group Forum for World Evangelization 2004 hosted by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.
- J. Maritain: Art and Scholasticism, Sheed and Ward – London, 1933.
- J. McCullough: Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books/Wipf and Stock, 2015.
- M.R. Miles: Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture, Beacon Press – Boston, 1985.
- R. Niebuhr: Christ and Culture, Harper & Row – New York, 1951.
- S. Prickett (ed.): The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
- H.R. Rookmaaker: The Creative Gift: Essays on Art and the ChristianLife, Crossways - Westchester, 1981.
- P.G. Ryken: Art for God’s Sake. A Call to Recover the Arts, P&R Publishing – Phillipsburg, 2006.
- D.L. Sayers: The Mind of the Maker, Harper San Francisco, 1987.
- C. Seerveld: Rainbows for the Fallen World, Toronto Tuppence Press – Toronto, 1980.
- C. Seerveld: Bearing Fresh Olive Leaves: Alternative Steps in Understanding Art. Piquant – Carlysle, 1998.
- B. Spackman: A Profound Weakness. Christians and Kitsch, Piquant – Carlisle, 2005.
- J.E. Taylor: What Did Jesus Look Like? Edinburgh: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2018.
- D. Thistlethwaite: The Art of God and the Religions of Art, Paternoster, 1998.
- S. Turner: Imagine. A Vision for Christians in the Arts, InterVarsity Press – Downers Grove, 2001.
- G.E. Veith jr.: State of the Arts; From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe, Crossway Books – Wheaton, 1991.
- K. Walker: Images or Idols?: The Place of Sacred Art in Churches Today, The Canterbury Press – Norwich, 1996.
- G. Wolfe: Intruding upon the Timeless. Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery, Square Halo Books – Baltimore, 2003.
- G. Wolfe: The Operation of Grace: Further Essays on Art, Faith, and Mystery. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books/Wipf and Stock, 2015.
- N. Wolterstorff: Art in Action, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 1980.
- N. Wolterstorff: Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art, Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Lambert Zuidervaart: Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal: Essays in Reformational Philosophy, Montreal, Quebec/Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.
Art and religion:
- A. Alexandrova: Breaking Resemblance: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art, Fordham University Press - New York, 2017.
- Gretchen Buggeln, Crispin Paine, and S. Brent Plate, eds: Religion in Museums: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Frank Burch Brown (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- James Elkins, On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, Routledge – New York and London, 2004.
- G. Graham: Philosophy, Art, and Religion: Understanding Faith and Creativity, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Ena Heller: Reluctant Partners: Art and Religion in Dialogue, Museum of Biblical Art – New York, 2006.
- Johannes Rauchenberger: Gott hat kein Museum, No Museum has God. Religion in der Kunst des beginnenden XXI. Jahrhunderts/Religion in Art in the Early 21st Century, Schöningh Verlag – Paderborn, 2015.
- A. Rosen: Art and Religion in the 21st Century, London: Thames & Hudson, 2015.
- A. Rosen: Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue (Arts and the Sacred), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018.
- Johannes Rauchenberger: Gott hat kein Museum, No Museum has God. Religion in der Kunst des beginnenden XXI. Jahrhunderts/Religion in Art in the Early 21st Century, Schöningh Verlag – Paderborn, 2015.
- A. Rosen: Art and Religion in the 21st Century, London: Thames & Hudson, 2015.
- A. Rosen: Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue (Arts and the Sacred), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018.
- A. Rosen: Brushes with Faith: Reflections and Conversations on Contemporary Art. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books/Wipf and Stock, 2019.
- Gregory Wolfe: Beauty Will Save the World, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2011.
- Gregory Wolfe: Beauty Will Save the World, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2011.
Art and theology:
- J.S. Begbie, Voicing Creation’s Praise. Towards a Theology of the Arts, T&T Clark – Edinburgh, 1991.
- J.S. Begbie (ed.): Beholding the Glory. Incarnation through the Arts, Darton, Longman and Todd – London, 2000.
- J.S. Begbie: A Peculiar Orthodoxy: Reflections on Theology and the Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2018.
- J.S. Begbie: Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts: Bearing Witness to the Triune God, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2018.
- R.R. Bernier, The Unspeakable Art of Bill Viola, A Visual Theology, Pickwick Publications, 2014.
- Carnes, Natalie. Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia (Encountering Traditions). Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 2017.
- Sarah Covington and Kathryn Reklis, eds. Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts. New York: Routledge, 2020.
- J. Craft: Placemaking and the Arts: Cultivating the Christian Life (Studies in Theology and the Arts), Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic/InterVarsity Press, 2018.
- J. Dillenberger, A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities, SCM – London, 1987.
- W.A. Dyrness, Visual Faith. Art, Theology and Worship in Dialogue, Baker Academic – Grand Rapids, 2001.
- W.A. Dyrness: Reformed Theology and Visual Culture. The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards, Cambridge University Press – Cambridge, 2004.
- William Dyrness: Poetic Theology, God and the Poetics of Everyday Life, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 2011.
- W.A. Dyrness: The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe: Calvin's Reformation Poetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- J. Cheryl Exum: Art as Biblical Commentary: Visual Criticism from Hagar the Wife of Abraham to Mary the Mother of Jesus (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies). Edinburgh: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2019.
- P.C. Finney (ed.): Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition, Eerdmans, 1999.
- B. Forte: The Portal of Beauty: Towards a Theology of Aesthetics, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 2008.
- J. De Gruchy: Christianity, Art, and Transformation: Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- J.F. Hamburger and A-M. Bouche (ed.): The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages. Princeton University Press – Princeton, 2006.
- R. Harries: Art and the Beauty of God: A Christian Understanding, Mowbray, 1993.
- Trevor Hart: Making Good: Creation, Creativity, and Artistry, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2014.
- Bridget Heal: A Magnificent Faith: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany, Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Robin M. Jensen: The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Mark C. Mattes: Martin Luther’s Theology of Beauty: A Reappraisal, Ada, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2017.
- A. Nichols: The Art of God Incarnate: Theology and Image in Christian Tradition. Darton, Lougman and Todd – London, 1980.
- H. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming, DLT – London, 1994.
- P. Jothen: Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood: The Art of Subjectivity (Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts). New York: Routledge, 2018, 2014.
- W. David O. Taylor: The Theater of God’s Imagination: Calvin, Creation, and the Liturgical Arts (Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies), Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2017.
- G. E. Thiessen: Theological Aesthetics, A Reader, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 2005.
- H. Urs von Balthasar: The Glory of the Lord: a Theological Aesthetics, Ignatius Press – San Francisco, 2003.
- Timothy Verdon: The Ecumenism of Beauty, Brewster, Massachusetts: Paraclete Press, 2017.
- R. Viladesau, Theology and the Arts: Encountering God Through Music, Art, and Rhetoric, Paulist Press – Mahwah, NJ, 2000.
- R. Viladesau: The Pathos of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts—The Baroque Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- J.M. Watkins: Creativity as Sacrifice: Toward a Theological Model for Creativity in the Arts. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 2015.
Art and/in the church:
- The Great Book of Contemporary Stained Glass, Glanzlichter der Welt • Lumières du Monde • Lights of the World (text in German, French and English), Centre international du Vitrail – Chartres, 2016.
- Sandra Bowden and Marianne Lettieri. Seeing the Unseen: Launching and Managing a Church Gallery. Madison, Wisconsin: Christians in the Visual Arts, 2015.
- F. Burch Brown: Inclusive Yet Discerning: Navigating Worship Artfully, The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies/Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 2009.
- N. Chinn and D. Philippart, Spaces for Spirit: Adorning the Church, Liturgy Training Publications – Chicago, 1998.
- Lisa DeBoer, Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church (Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2016.
- W.A. Dyrness, Visual Faith. Art, Theology and Worship in Dialogue, Baker Academic – Grand Rapids, 2001.
- W.A. Dyrness, Senses of the Soul: Art and the Visual in Christian Worship, Cascade Books, 2008.
- G. Graham: Philosophy, Art, and Religion: Understanding Faith and Creativity, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- R.M. Jensen: The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community, Eerdmans Publishing - Grand Rapids, 2004.
- C. Kapikian: Art in Service of the Sacred, Abingdon Press, 2006.
- Jonathan Koestlé-Cate: Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace: Ecclesiastical Encounters with Contemporary Art. London: Routledge, 2016.
- A. Rosen (ed.): Religion and Art in the Heart of Modern Manhattan: St. Peter’s Church and the Louise Nevelson Chapel. London: Routledge, 2015.
- John E. Skillen: Putting Art (Back) in Its Place, Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2016.
- D. Sokolove: Sanctifying Art: Inviting Conversation between Artists, Theologians, and the Church, Wipf & Stock/Cascade Books – Eugene, 2013.
- David Taylor (ed.): For the Beauty of the Church, Baker Books, 2010.
- W. David O. Taylor and Taylor Worley (eds.): Contemporary Art and the Church: A Conversation Between Two Worlds (Studies in Theology and the Arts), Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Academic, 2017.
- W. David O. Taylor: Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2019.
- Timothy Verdon: Kunst im Leben der Kirche, Eine 2000-jährige Beziehung, Schnell & Steiner – Regensburg, 2011.
Contemporary culture:
- R. Hughes: Shock of the New: The Life and Death of Modern Art. Knopf – New York, 1981.
- S. Scott: Like a House on Fire; Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture, Cornerstone Press – Chicago, 1997.
- G.E. Veith jr.: Postmodern Times. A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, Crossway Books – Wheaton, Ill., 1994.
Contemporary Christian art:
- Ned Bustard, Revealed: A Storybook Bible for Grown-Ups, Baltimore, Maryland: Square Halo Books, 2016.
- Alastair Gordon: God Art: Signs of Faith in Contemporary Art, London: Morphē Arts, 2017.
- Kevin Hamilton (ed.): Tim Lowly. Trying to Get a Sense of Scale, North Park University, 2013.
- Richard Harries: The Image of Christ in Modern Art, Ashgate - London, 2013.
- P.C. Pongracz and W. Roosa: The Next Generation, Contemporary Expressions of Faith, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids and Museum of Biblical Art, New York, 2005.
- T.L. Prescott (ed.): A Broken Beauty, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 2005.
- J. Romaine: Objects of Grace; Conversations on Creativity and Faith, Square Halo Books – Baltimore, 2002.
Art History:
- N. Billingsley: The Visionary Art of William Blake: Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination (Library of Modern Religion). London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
- P. and T. Clowney: Exploring Churches, Lion Publishing – Herts UK, 1982.
- Jérôme Cottin: La mystique de l’art. Art et christianisme de 1900 à nos jours, Les Editions du Cerf - Paris, 2008.
- J. Couchman: The Art of Faith: A Guide to Understanding Christian Images, Paraclete Press, 2012.
- Jane Dillenberger: Style and content in Christian Art, 2nd ed. SCM – London, 1986.
- J.W. Dixon Jr.: The Christ of Michelangelo: An Essay on Carnal Spirituality, Scholars Press – Atlanta, 1994.
- J. Drury: Painting the Word. Christian Pictures and their Meaning, Yale University Press – New Haven and London, 1999.
- W.A. Dyrness: Rouault: a Vision of Suffering and Salvation, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 1971.
- C. Edwards: Van Gogh and God, Loyola University Press – Chicago, 1989.
- M. Gaudio: The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England: Little Gidding and the pursuit of scriptural harmony (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). London: Routledge, 2016.
- Michaela Giebelhausen: Painting the Bible: Representation and Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain, London: Routledge, 2006, 2017.
- C. Grewe: Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009.
- M.B. Hall: The Sacred Image in the Age of Art. Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio, Yale University Press, 2011.
- J.F. Hamburger: Nuns As Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent, University of California Press – Berkeley, 1997.
- R. Harries: The Passion in Art, Ashgate – Aldershot, 2004.
- R. Harries: The Image of Christ in Modern Art, Ashgate - London, 2013.
- Bridget Heal: A Magnificent Faith: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany, Oxford University Press, 2017.
- P. Hills: Veiled Presence: Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2018.
- Robin Jensen, Understanding Early Christian Art, Routledge New York, 2000.
- Robin M. Jensen: The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Robin M. Jensen and Mark D. Ellison, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art (Routledge Handbooks). New York: Routledge, 2018.
- R. Kasl (ed.): Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2010.
- N. MacGregor and E. Langmuir: Seeing Salvation. Images of Christ in Art, BBC Worldwide Ltd – London, 2000.
- T.F. Mathews: The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art, Princeton University Press - Princeton, 1993.
- S. Miller: The Word Made Visible in the Painted Image: Perspective, Proportion, Witness and Threshold in Italian Renaissance Painting. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Ambra Moroncini: Michelangelo’s Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation, London: Routledge, 2017.
- P. Murray and L. Murray: The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture, Oxford University Press – New York, paperback edition, 1998.
- A. Nagel: Michelangelo and the Reformation of Art. Toronto: Cambridge University Press – Cambridge, 2000.
- J. Pelikan: The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries, Yale University Press, 1997.
- K. Powers Erickson: At Eternity’s Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 1998.
- K. Powers Erickson: At Eternity’s Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 1998.
- J. Romaine (ed): Art as Spiritual Perception, Essays in Honor of E. John Walford, Crossway – Wheaton, Ill, 2012.
- James Romaine and Phoebe Wolfskill, eds: Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art, University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2017.
- H.R. Rookmaaker: Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, Crossways Books – Westchester, 1994 [1970].
- G. Schiller: Iconography of Christian Art. 2 vols. New York: Graphic Society, 1971, 1972.
- C. Spretnak: The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art: Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- James Romaine and Linda Stratford (ed.): ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art , Cascade Books, 2014.
- R. Rosenblum: Modern Art and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko, Thames and Hudson – London, 1975.
- V. van Gogh: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Penguin - London, 1997.
- T.G. Verdon (ed.): Monasticism and the Arts, Syracuse University Press - Syracuse, 1984.
- T.G. Verdon and J. Henderson: Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Imagination in the Quattrocento, Syracuse University Press – Syracuse, 1990.
- T.G. Verdon et. al: Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea. New York: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014.
- J. Walford: Great Themes in Art, Prentice Hall – Upper Saddle River, 2002.
- A. Wessels: ‘A Kind of Bible’: Vincent van Gogh as Evangelist, SCM – London, 2000.
- K.J. White: Masperpieces of the Bible. Insights into Classical Art of Faith, Baker – Grand Rapids, 1997.
- G. Schiller: Iconography of Christian Art. 2 vols. New York: Graphic Society, 1971, 1972.
- C. Spretnak: The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art: Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- James Romaine and Linda Stratford (ed.): ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art , Cascade Books, 2014.
- R. Rosenblum: Modern Art and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko, Thames and Hudson – London, 1975.
- V. van Gogh: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Penguin - London, 1997.
- T.G. Verdon (ed.): Monasticism and the Arts, Syracuse University Press - Syracuse, 1984.
- T.G. Verdon and J. Henderson: Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Imagination in the Quattrocento, Syracuse University Press – Syracuse, 1990.
- T.G. Verdon et. al: Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea. New York: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014.
- J. Walford: Great Themes in Art, Prentice Hall – Upper Saddle River, 2002.
- A. Wessels: ‘A Kind of Bible’: Vincent van Gogh as Evangelist, SCM – London, 2000.
- K.J. White: Masperpieces of the Bible. Insights into Classical Art of Faith, Baker – Grand Rapids, 1997.
Icons:
- L. Martin, Sacred Doorways: A Beginner's Guide to Icons, Paraclete Press - Brewster MA, 2002.
- F. Matthewes-Green: The Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer, Paraclete Press – Brewster, MA, 2008.
- H. Nouwen: Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying with the Icons, Ave Maria Press, 2008.
- L. Ouspensky and Vladimir Lossky: The Meaning of Icons, St Vladimir’s Seminary Press – New York, 1999.
Architecture:
- Thomas Barrie, Julio Bermudez, and Phillip James Tabb (eds.). Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality. London: Routledge, 2015.
- Susannah Charlton, Elain Harwood, and Clare Price, eds.: 100 Churches, 100 Years. Batsford, Gloucestershire, England: Batsford/Pavilion Books, 2019.
- E. Heathcote and L. Moffatt: Contemporary Church Architecture, Chichester, England; Wiley-Academy – Hoboken, NJ, 2007.
- K. Jordan and Ayla Lepine, eds.: Modern Architecture and Religious Communities 1850–1970, New York: Routledge, 2018.
- R. Kieckhefer: Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- P. Murray and L. Murray: The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press – New York, paperback edition, 1998.
- James Pallister: Sacred Spaces: Contemporary Religious Architecture. London: Phaidon Press, 2015.
- M.A. Torgerson: An Architecture of Immanence: Architecture for Worship and Ministry Today, Eerdmans – Grand Rapids, 2007.
- J.F. White: Protestant Worship and Church Architecture: Theological and Historical Considerations, Wipf & Stock Publishers – Eugene OR. 2003.
JOURNALS
ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 300 Fifth Street NW, New Brighton, MN 55112. The Journal for The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (societyarts.org)
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Faith and Form: Journal of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, 3220 N Street NW, Suite 164, Washington, DC 20007. www.faithandform.com/
Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, P.0. Box 3000, Denville, NJ 07834. imagejournal.org/
Radix, P. 0. Box 4307, Berkeley, CA 94704. www.radixmagazine.com
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