Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities to Reach Their Kingdom Goals

by BRIAN SCHRAG, James R. Krabill

Overview

Creating Local Arts Together is a manual designed to guide an individual or group into a local community’s efforts at integrating its arts with the values and purposes of God’s kingdom. The practical, playful text reduces experience-based scholarly insights gained from multiple decades of incarnational ministry around the world into a flexible seven-step process.

This manual is the second book in a two-volume set on the principles and practices of ethnodoxology. The first volume, entitled Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook, presents in textbook format the central “Foundations,” “Stories,” and “Tools” designed to equip readers in exploring more fully this important new field of research and ministry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878084944
Publisher:	Carey, William Library Publishers
Publication date:	06/26/2013
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Prepare Yourself xv

Steps

Step 1 Meet a Community and Its Arts 1

Step 2 Specify Kingdom Goals 23

Step 3 Select Effects, Contents, Genre, and Events 53

Step 4 Analyze an Event Containing the Chosen Genre 59

4A Describe the Event and Its Genre(s) as a Whole 67

4B Explore the Event's Genre(s) through Artistic Domain Categories 87

Music 91

Drama 103

Dance 123

Oral Verbal Arts 135

Visual Arts 150

4C Relate the Event's Genre(s) to Its Broader Cultural Context 159

Artists 160

Creativity 162

Language 164

Transmission and Change 165

Cultural Dynamism 166

Identity and Power 167

Aesthetics and Evaluation 168

Time 169

Emotions 169

Subject matter 170

Community Values 171

Communal Investment 171

4D Explore how a Christian community relates artistically to its broader church and cultural context 173

Discover a Christian Community's Arts 174

Compare a Christian Community's Use of Arts with that of its Surrounding Communities 175

Evaluate How a Christian Community's Arts Currently Fulfill its Purposes 175

Apply a Heart Arts Questionnaire to a Christian Community 176

Evaluate Worship Meetings Using Biblical Principles 178

Evaluate a Christian Community Using the Worship Wheel 181

Assess a Multicultural Christian Community's Arts 183

Interpret Scripture Well 184

Address Theological Objections 186

Step 5 Spark Creativity 191

Step 6 Improve New Works 241

Step 7 Integrate and Celebrate for Continuity 251

Closing Matter

Closing 1 Quick Reference 261

Closing 2 Sample Community Arts Profile (CAP) Outline 263

Closing 3 Glossary 267

Closing 4 Bibliography 271

Closing 5 Index of Artistic Domain Research Activities 277

Closing 6 Index of Sample Sparking Activities 281

Figures

Figure 1 Create Local Arts Together xxv, 88, and 261

Figure 2 Components of an Artistic Communication Event 57

Figure 3 Sample Intertwined Artistic Features in an Event 60 and 242

Figure 4 Categories of Insights 64

Figure 5 Contours of a Melody 100

Figure 6 Sample Floor Plan 124

Figure 7 Worship Wheel 181

Figure 8 Approach to Artistic Forms 189