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Stunning Resurrection Depictions Make Great Viewing For Easter Share Share Trending Professor Dominic Crossan is creating a new subject, Art Theology. We ve all heard of Art History, so what is Art Theology? It is theology which takes artistic images seriously. And why shouldn t it? Theology for most people throughout most of history was mediated through art. Even the Biblical traditions, which forbid idol worship, still were generally practiced by people who did not own books, and could not read them even if they had owned them. Yes, there was reading from sacred texts, but much of day-to-day religion was ritual, architecture, and image. To ignore all of that, as though texts were the sole sources of religious knowledge, is to cut scholarship off from a major source of knowledge. ....