THEOLOGY
& POETRY:
LANGUAGES
THAT SHAPE THE SOUL
Saturday, May 3, 2003
The House of the Redeemer
7 East 95th Street
New York, NY
Religion and art are the two disciplines that, above all others,
shape the human soul. Sometimes they hold much in common. But
for centuries - at least since the Renaissance reintroduced humanism
- they have had profound disagreements.
By lifting poetry and theology out of the immense fields of art
and religion - with America's dominant strain, Protestant Christianity,
in focus - we enter two linguistic modes, where those fields become
more explicit than anywhere else. What are they saying to the
human soul in 2003? And what would they like to say to each other?
Getting poets and theologians together and listening to them read
and talk in a permissive atmosphere should help us all understand
where the trouble spots are in this relationship. (Catholics,
Jews, and others may want to point out certain theological differences
from Protestants in the discussion periods.)
At the end of the day, will ARC have improved the relationship
of this mutually suspicious pair? Or will it have confirmed the
wisdom of their polite distance? Or has time closed the gap so
that the two languages more or less agree, as they guide our spiritual
direction?
I have no idea; nor do the speakers. Only living into this adventure
can reveal the answer. Welcome to reality at ARC!
Mary Jean Irion
Coordinating Fellow
THE PROGRAM
9:30 Registration, breakfast
and conversation
10:00 Introduction
10:15 First Theologian - Lee Barrett
10:45 First Poet - Richard Foerster
11:15 Second Theologian -
Riess Potterveld
11:45 Panel Discussion
12:30 Luncheon
Tara Potterfeld's sculptures on display
1:30 Second Poet - Margaret Gibson
2:00 Third Theologian - David Jasper
2:30 Third Poet - Robert Cording
3:00 Panel Discussion
3:45 Closing
4:00 Wine, cheese, conversation
The Presenters
Registration information:
Members/Fellows
$45
Non-Members $50; Students $15
Fee includes continental breakfast, lunch and reception.
($5.00 extra at the door.)
For registration
information,
please contact Charles Henderson
chashenderson@mindspring.com or
Tel: 212-870-2544
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ARC
including membership information
From time to time the Board of
Directors elects as Fellows individuals it identifies as having
made a distinguished contribution to their respective fields.
The list of Fellows elected over a period of nearly four decades
thus exemplifies what the Society understands as the necessary
and vital connections between art, religion and culture.
ARC Fellows
PROGRAM ARCHIVE
Winter 2003
Tracing the Garden
Fall 2002
Drawing on the Human
Spirit
Spring 2002
MoMA's PAPA:
Alfred Barr and
the Religious Dimension of Modernism
Winter 2002
A Theology of
Beauty
Fall 2001
Lifting the Veil
May 2001
Utopia/Dystopia
February 2001
Antigone
Performance and Symposium
November 2000
Illuminations & Transformations:
Cross-Cultural Spiritual Dynamics
in Music, Text, Dance and Film
May 2000
Alternative Readings:
Sacred Text Embodied in Visual Art
February 2000
The Meaning of Myth
November 1999
Myth, Ritual and the Mediation
of Violence
May, 1999
Writers' Ways with Loving and Dying
February, 1999
The Divine Image
Implications for a changing image of God.
October, 1998
Uneasy Constellations of Meaning
Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth Century
Europe &
The Religious Art of Andy Warhol
May, 1998 Meeting
AYNI: The Andean Concept of Reciprocity
Webpage design courtesy Cross
Currents
Charles Henderson, Executive Director
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