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THEOLOGY
AND THE ARTS
AS
PLAY
SPRING PROGRAM
Saturday May 7th,
2005
The House of the Redeemer
7 East 95th Street
New York, NY
It
seems to me that next to Homo Faber and perhaps on the same level
as Homo Sapiens, Homo Ludens, Man the Player, deserves a place
in our nomenclature…[G]enius, pure play is one of the main bases
for civilization.
--Johan Huizenqa
Play is the
prerequisite for those forms of existence which strive toward
a communion with the other, and finally for meeting with God.
--Gerhardus van der Lecuw
The creative
playing of men is always a playing with something which, in turn,
plays with the player. Man plays with the waves of the ocean and
they play with him. He plays with colors, sounds, and words and
becomes their playmate.
--Jiírgen Moltmann
They that
in play can do the thing they would,
Having an instinct throned in reason's place
-And every perfect action hath the grace
Of indolence or thoughtless hardihood-
These are the best.
--Robert Bridges
THE PROGRAM
9:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m.
Welcome -- Orlanda Brugnola, President
Introduction of Theme -- Nelvin Vos
9:45 a.m.
Theology as Play
David L. Miller
Conversation
11:00 a.m.
Poetry as Play
Mary Jean Irion
Conversation
12:00 Noon
Introduction of New Fellows and Annual Meeting of the Society
Orlanda Brugnola
12:15 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Drama as Play and Ritual
Nelvin Vos
Conversation
2:30 p.m.
Music as Play
Mark Harvey and Ken Filiano
Conversation
3:30 p.m.
Panel of Presenters and Conversation
4:15 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Reception
in honor of new Fellows
For
more information about the program leaders
Registration
information:
Members/Fellows
$55
Non-Members $60; Students $15
Fee includes continental breakfast, lunch and reception.
($5.00 extra at the door.)
To register
please contact Charles Henderson
chashenderson@mindspring.com or
Tel: 212-870-2544
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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
2005
Alpha-bet:
Uncertainty Principles in the Atoms of Language
Fall
2004
Languages that Shape the Soul
Spring
2004
The Moving Image
Winter
2004
Religion and the Visual Arts
Fall
2003
Theology and Music
Spring
2003
Theology and Poetry:
Languages that Shape the Soul
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 CrossCurrents
Charles Henderson, Executive Director
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