Books and Articles Addressing (or Relevant to)
Religion in Modern and Contemporary Art
1900–present
This list provides a general bibliography for the overlapping fields of study pertaining to “religion,” “theology,” and “spirituality” in the history of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. It casts a wide net, including sources from many different perspectives and (occasionally) some sources that have strong relevance to the subject but aren’t specifically focused on art since 1900. Unlike most bibliographies, this list is constructed in descending chronological order according to the date the work was first published (rather than alphabetical according to author)—an ordering that serves a historiographical purpose similar to the other lists in these appendices. Where available, the English translation or newest edition of each source will be the cited source, but the entry will appear according to the date the work was first published in its original language. Some individual essays from exhibition catalogues are included here, but for a full list of the catalogues themselves, see here.
*This list is ongoing and occasionally updated. If you spot any inaccuracies, or if you would like to suggest additional entries, please contact me to make a suggestion.
2025
Anderson, Jonathan A. The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2025.
2024
Quash, Ben, and Chloë Reddaway, eds. Theology, Modernity, and the Visual Arts. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024.
Wolfe, Judith. The Theological Imagination: Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
2023
Arya, Rina. “Locating Religion in Contemporary Art.” Religion Compass 17, no. 4 (Apr 2023): 1–9, doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12457.
Bernier, Ronald R., and Rachel Hostetter Smith, eds. Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Lewer, Deborah. “Hugo Ball’s Religious Conversion.” German Life and Letters 76, no. 3 (2023): 376–91.
Masheck, Joseph. Faith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023.
Zuidervaart, Lambert. Social Domains of Truth: Science, Politics, Art, and Religion, esp. chaps. 9–10. New York: Routledge, 2023.
2022
Anderson, Jonathan A. “Conceptual Art, Theology, and Re-Presentation.” Religions 13, no. 10 (2022): 984, doi.org/10.3390/rel13100984, pp. 1–14.
Doss, Erika. Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Goroncy, Jason, and Rod Pattenden, eds. Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2022.
2021
Beaumont, Sheona, and Madeleine Emerald Thiele, eds. Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts: Theology, Aesthetics, and Practice. London: Routledge, 2021.
Carlsson Redell, Petra. Avantgarde Art and Radical Material Theology: A Manifesto. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Elkins, James, and Jonathan A. Anderson. “The Strange Persistence of Religion in Contemporary Art.” Image 110 (Fall 2021): 48–62.
Gómez-Upegui, Salomé. “Why Contemporary Artists Are Embracing Spirituality in Their Work.” Artsy, August 2, 2021. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-contemporary-artists-embracing-spirituality-work.
Lewer, Deborah. “Art and the Religious Imagination: An Interview with Rowan Williams.” Art and Christianity 108 (2021): 6–10.
Mennekes, Friedhelm, and Pilar Parcerisas, eds. Joseph Beuys—Manresa: A Spiritual Geography. Barcelona: Tenov Books, 2021.
Pinn, Anthony B. Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021.
Thiessen, Gesa Elsbeth, ed. Karl Rahner’s Writings on Literature, Music and the Visual Arts. London: T&T Clark, 2021.
2020
Asavei, Maria Alina. Art, Religion, and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania: Nostalgia for Paradise Lost. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Baigell, Matthew. Jewish Identity in American Art: A Golden Age since the 1970s. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020.
Bosman, Frank G. “When Art Is Religion and Vice Versa: Six Perspectives on the Relationship between Art and Religion.” Perichoresis 18, no. 3 (2020): 3–20.
Elizabeth, S. The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic. London: White Lion, 2020.
Fujimura, Makoto. Art and Faith: A Theology of Making. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020.
Heartney, Eleanor. “Spirituality Has Long Been Erased from Art History. Here’s Why It’s Having a Resurgence Today.” Artnet News, January 6, 2020. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/spirituality-and-art-resurgence-1737117.
Lepine, Ayla. “Heaven, Earth, and Art History’s Theological Turn.” Art History 43, no. 4 (2020): 862–69.
Olin, Margaret. “The Eruv: From the Talmud to Contemporary Art.” In Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism, edited by Steven Fine, 369–78. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
Rennie, Bryan. An Ethology of Religion and Art. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Viladesau, Richard. The Wisdom and Power of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts—Late Modernity and Postmodernity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Worley, Taylor. Memento Mori in Contemporary Art: Theologies of Lament and Hope. New York: Routledge, 2020.
2019
Carlsson Redell, Petra. Foucault, Art, and Radical Theology: The Mystery of Things. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Chong, Vicente. A Theological Aesthetics of Liberation: God, Art, and the Social Outcasts. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019.
Dyrness, William A. The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe: Calvin’s Reformation Poetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Heartney, Eleanor. Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art. Chichester, NY: Silver Hollow Press, 2019.
Kresser, Katie. Bezalel’s Body: The Death of God and the Birth of Art. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019.
Rosen, Aaron. Brushes with Faith: Reflections and Conversations on Contemporary Art. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2019.
2018
Appleton, Helen, and Louise Nelstrop, eds. Art and Mysticism: Interfaces in the Medieval and Modern Periods. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Bauduin, Tessel M., and Henrik Johnsson, eds. The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Begbie, Jeremy S. Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts: Bearing Witness to the Triune God. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018.
Candelaria, Michael R. The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Carnes, Natalie. Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.
Clark, T. J. Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come. London: Thames & Hudson, 2018.
Fanning, Leesa K., ed. Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art. Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2018.
Gonzalez Ho, Christian, and Christina Gonzalez Ho. Los Angeles: Mestizo Archipelago. Irvine, CA: WaterTable and Pinatubo Press, 2018.
Kearney, Richard, and Matthew Clemente, eds. The Art of Anatheism. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Masheck, Joseph. Classic Mondrian in Neo-Calvinist View. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2018.
Quash, Ben, ed. The Visual Commentary on Scripture. London: King’s College London, 2018–ongoing. https://thevcs.org/.
Rastas, David. Problems Integrating Contemporary Art into Ritual Spaces. Helsinki: Other Spaces, 2018.
Romaine, James, and Phoebe Wolfskill, eds. Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018.
Sokolova, Lilia. “Post-Secular Space: On the Strange Place of Contemporary Art in Old Active Churches in Germany, 1987–2017.” PhD diss., University of Cologne, 2018.
Soltes, Ori Z. “Modern Jewish Art: Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities.” Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts 2, no. 2 (2018): 1–107.
Wijnia, Lieke. “Beyond the Return of Religion: Art and the Postsecular.” Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts 2, no. 3 (2018): 1–89.
2017
Alexandrova, Alena. Breaking Resemblance: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. “Religion and the Arts: History and Method.” Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts 1, no. 1 (2017): 1–80.
Buggeln, Gretchen, Crispin Paine, and S. Brent Plate, eds. Religion in Museums: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Cottin, Jérôme. Quand l’art dit la résurrection. Huit œuvre, du VIe au XXIe siècle [When Art Says Resurrection: Eight Works, from the 6th to the 21st Century]. Geneva: Éditions Labor et Fides, 2017.
Crow, Thomas. No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art. Sydney: Power Publications, 2017.
Firestone, Evan R. Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art: Kandinsky, Ernst, Pollock, Beuys. London: Routledge, 2017.
Fujimura, Makoto. Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017.
Groys, Boris, and Arseny Zhilyaev. “Contemporary Art Is the Theology of the Museum.” In Art without Death: Conversations on Russian Cosmism, edited by Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, and Brian Kuan Wood, 93–106. New York: e-flux; Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017.
Hardiman, Louise, and Nicola Kozicharow, eds. Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2017.
Heartney, Eleanor. “Varieties of Faith.” Art in America 105, no. 4 (2017): 47–50.
Plate, S. Brent. “Reports of the Death of Religious Art Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 24, 2017. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/233865/.
Quash, Ben, Aaron Rosen, and Chloë Reddaway, eds. Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017.
Schachter, Ben. Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2017.
Taylor, W. David O., and Taylor Worley, eds. Contemporary Art and the Church: A Conversation Between Two Worlds. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017.
Thackara, Tess. “Why Shamanic Practices Are Making a Comeback in Contemporary Art.” Artsy, August 11, 2017. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-shamanic-practices-making-comeback-contemporary-art.
2016
Anderson, Jonathan A., and William A. Dyrness. Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016.
Arya, Rina. “Spirituality and Contemporary Art.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.209.
Cottin, Jérôme, Nathalie Dietschy, Philippe Kaenel, and Isabelle Saint-Martin, eds. Le Christ réenvisagé: Variations photographiques contemporaines. Gollion: Infolio, 2016.
Crowther, Paul. How Pictures Complete Us: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016.
Dietschy, Nathalie. The Figure of Christ in Contemporary Photography (2016). Rev. and exp. ed. Translated by Saskia Brown. London: Reaktion Books, 2020.
Heartney, Eleanor. “Keeping Faith.” Art in America 104, no. 2 (2016): 41–44.
Jackson, Michael. The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
Jonas, Silvia. Ineffability and Its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Koestlé-Cate, Jonathan. Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace—Ecclesiastical Encounters with Contemporary Art. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Pinder, Kymberly N. Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Rosen, Aaron, ed. Religion and Art in the Heart of Modern Manhattan: St. Peter’s Church and the Louise Nevelson Chapel. Farnham: Ashgate, 2016.
2015
Bown, Matthew. “Traces of the Holy: The Contemporary Art Work as ‘Crypto-Relic.’” Times Literary Supplement, April 10, 2015, 14–15.
Grewe, Cordula. The Nazarene Romantic Avant-Garde and the Art of the Concept. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2015.
Larcher, Gerhard, ed. Theologie–Kunst–Ästhetik: Kommunikationschancen in Moderne und Gegenwart. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2015.
Masheck, Joseph. “A Christian Mondrian.” Bavinck Review 6 (2015): 37–72.
Morgan, David. “Art and the Devotional Image: Visual Cultures of the Sacred.” In The Problem of God, edited by Isabelle Malz, 331–37. Exhibition catalogue. Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Bielefeld: Kerber, 2015.
Morgan, David. The Forge of Vision: A Visual History of Modern Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015.
Rauchenberger, Johannes. Gott hat kein Museum / No Museum Has God: Religion in der Kunst des beginnenden XXI. Jahrhunderts / Religion in Art in the Early 21st Century. 3 vols. Translated by Otmar Lichtenwörther. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015.
Reddaway, Chloë. Transformations in Persons and Paint: Visual Theology, Historical Images, and the Modern Viewer. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015.
Rosen, Aaron. Art & Religion in the 21st Century. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015.
Siedell, Daniel A. Who’s Afraid of Modern Art?: Essays on Modern Art and Theology in Conversation. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015.
Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
2014
Anderson, Jonathan A. “The (In)Visibility of Theology in Contemporary Art Criticism.” In Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects and Perils, edited by Thomas M. Crisp, Steve L. Porter, and Gregg Ten Elshof, 53–79. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2014.
Baskind, Samantha. Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2014.
Bernier, Ronald R. The Unspeakable Art of Bill Viola: A Visual Theology. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2014.
Brown, Frank Burch, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Carlsson Redell, Petra. Mysticism as Revolt: Foucault, Deleuze, and Theology beyond Representation. Aurora, CO: Davies Group, 2014.
Hart, Trevor. Making Good: Creation, Creativity, and Artistry. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014.
Lewer, Deborah. “‘The Uncorrupt Image’: Hugo Ball, Zurich Dada and the Aesthetics, Politics, and Metaphysics of Asceticism.” In Virgin Microbe: Essays on Dada, edited by David Hopkins and Michael White, 91–116. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Preziosi, Donald. Art, Religion, Amnesia: The Enchantments of Credulity. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Promey, Sally M., ed. Sensational Religion: Sensory Cultures in Material Practice. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
Rauchenberger, Johannes. “Zur Spiritualität Der Avantgarde: Ein Erinnerungsruf Zum Verhältnis von Kunst Und Religion Nach Dem Tod von Wieland Schmied.” Kunst und Kirche 2 (2014): 76–77.
Spretnak, Charlene. The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art: Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Williams, Rowan. The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
2013
Arya, Rina, ed. Contemplations of the Spiritual in Art. Bern: Peter Lang, 2013.
Goroncy, Jason A., ed. “Tikkun Olam”—To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013.
Gruber, Christiane, and Sune Haugbolle, eds. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
Harries, Richard. The Image of Christ in Modern Art. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
Hart, Trevor. Between the Image and the Word: Theological Engagements with Imagination, Language and Literature. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
Huang, Zhuan. Politics and Theology in Chinese Contemporary Art: Reflections on the Work of Wang Guangyi. Translated by Jeff Crosby and Julia Heim. Milan: Skira, 2013.
Illman, Ruth, and W. Alan Smith. Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Kosky, Jeffrey L. Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity—Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Lerner, Loren. “Introduction: Special Section on Contemporary Art and Religion.” Religion and the Arts 17 (2013): 1–19.
Quash, Ben. Found Theology: History, Imagination and the Holy Spirit. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Romaine, James, and Linda Stratford, eds. ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2013.
2012
Cottin, Jérôme, Wilhelm Gräb, and Bertina Schaller, eds. Spiritualité contemporaine de l’art: Approches théologique, philosophique et pratique. Geneva: Éditions Labor et Fides, 2012.
Giordan, Giuseppe, and Enzo Pace, eds. Mapping Religion and Spirituality in a Postsecular World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2012.
González-Andrieu, Cecilia. Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.
Gräb, Wilhelm, and Jérôme Cottin, eds. Imaginationen der inneren Welt: Theologische, psychologische und ästhetische Reflexionen zur spirituellen Dimension der Kunst. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012.
Hart, Trevor, Gavin Hopps, and Jeremy Begbie, eds. Art, Imagination and Christian Hope: Patterns of Promise. London: Routledge, 2012.
Henke, Silvia, Nika Spalinger, and Isabel Zürcher, eds. Kunst und Religion im Zeitalter des Postsäkularen: Ein kritischer Reader. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2012.
Illman, Ruth. Art and Belief: Artists Engaged in Interreligious Dialogue. New York: Routledge, 2012.
MacSwain, Robert, and Taylor Worley, eds. Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Nagel, Alexander. Medieval Modern: Art out of Time. London: Thames & Hudson, 2012.
Preziosi, Donald, and Claire Farago. Art Is Not What You Think It Is. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Romaine, James, ed. Art as Spiritual Perception: Essays in Honor of E. John Walford. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012.
Stoker, Wessel. Where Heaven and Earth Meet: The Spiritual in the Art of Kandinsky, Rothko, Warhol, and Kiefer. Translated by Henry Jansen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012.
Taylor, Mark C. Refiguring the Spiritual in Art: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
2011
Arya, Rina. “The Neglected Place of Religion in Contemporary Western Art.” Fieldwork in Religion 6, no. 1 (2011): 27–46.
Baskind, Samantha, and Larry Silver. Jewish Art: A Modern History. London: Reaktion Books, 2011.
Elkins, James. “Iconoclasm and the Sublime: Two Implicit Religious Discourses in Art History.” In Idol Anxiety, edited by Josh Ellenbogen and Aaron Tugendhaft, 133–51. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011.
Gorringe, T. J. Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
Groys, Boris, and Peter Weibel. “Religion as Medium.” In Medium Religion: Faith, Geopolitics, Art, edited by Boris Groys and Peter Weibel, 6–10. Exhibition catalogue. Cologne: Walther König, 2011.
Pickstone, Charles. “A Theology of Abstraction: Wassily Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art.” Theology 114, no. 1 (2011): 32–41.
Szulakowska, Urszula. Alchemy in Contemporary Art. Abingdon: Ashgate, 2011 (reprint, New York: Routledge, 2016).
2010
Bernier, Ronald R., ed. Beyond Belief: Theoaesthetics or Just Old-Time Religion? Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2010.
Bown, Matthew. “Dust to Dust.” Artnet, May 25, 2010. http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/bown/art-value5-25-10.asp.
Fox, Dan. “Believe It or Not: Religion versus Spirituality in Contemporary Art.” Frieze 135 (December 2010): 15.
Milliner, Matthew J. “A Tale of Two Art Worlds: October and Its Others.” The City 3, no. 2 (2010): 5–17.
Moffatt, Laura, and Eileen Daly, eds. Contemporary Art in British Churches. London: Art and Christianity Enquiry, 2010.
Smart, Pamela G. Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Teasdale, Paul. “Does Theology Hold the Answer for Revolutionary Politics?” Frieze 135 (December 2010): 33–34.
Washton Long, Rose-Carol, Matthew Baigell, and Milly Heyd, eds. Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture: Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2010.
Yoon, Jungu. Spirituality in Contemporary Art: The Idea of the Numinous. London: Zidane, 2010.
2009
Alma, Hans, Marcel Barnard, and Volker Küster, eds. Visual Arts and Religion. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2009.
Baert, Barbara, ed. Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion and the Visual Arts. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009.
Eagleton, Terry. “Faith and Belief.” In Now Is the Time: Art & Theory in the 21st Century, edited by Jelle Bouwhuis, Ingrid Commandeur, Gijs Frieling, Domeniek Ruyters, Margriet Schavemaker, and Christel Vesters, 13–19. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2009.
Elkins, James, and David Morgan, eds. Re-Enchantment. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Grewe, Cordula. Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
Hlavajova, Maria, Sven Lütticken, and Jill Winder, eds. The Return of Religion and Other Myths: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art. Utrecht: BAK basis voor actuele kunst; Rotterdam: Post Editions, 2009.
Lütticken, Sven. Idols of the Market: Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2009.
Pattison, George. Crucifixions and Resurrections of the Image: Christian Reflections on Art and Modernity. London: SCM Press, 2009.
Prescott, Theodore, Bruce Herman, James Romaine, Bruce Ellis Benson, and James Elkins. “On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art: A Symposium.” Books & Culture 15, no. 3 (2009): 20–25.
Raphael, Melissa. Judaism and the Visual Image: A Jewish Theology of Art. London: Continuum, 2009.
Re Manning, Russell. “Tillich’s Theology of Art.” In The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich, edited by Russell Re Manning, 152–72. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Rosen, Aaron. Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj. London: Legenda, 2009.
2008
Burns Coleman, Elizabeth, and Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias, eds. Negotiating the Sacred II: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts. Canberra: Australian National University E Press, 2008.
Forte, Bruno. The Portal of Beauty: Towards a Theology of Aesthetics. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008.
Herbert, James D. Our Distance from God: Studies of the Divine and the Mundane in Western Art and Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Shusterman, Richard. “Art and Religion.” Journal of Aesthetic Education 42, no. 3 (2008): 1–18.
Siedell, Daniel A. God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.
Zock, Hetty, ed. At the Crossroads of Art and Religion: Imagination, Commitment, Transcendence. Leuven: Peeters, 2008.
2007
Baigell, Matthew. Jewish Art in America: An Introduction. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
Braiterman, Zachary. The Shape of Revelation: Aesthetics and Modern Jewish Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Brown, David. God and Grace of Body: Sacrament in Ordinary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Cottin, Jérôme. La Mystique de l’art: Art et Christianisme de 1900 à Nos Jours. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2007.
Crown, Carol, and Charles Russell, eds. Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Graham, Gordon. The Re-Enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Hobson, Suzanne. Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910–1960. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Howes, Graham. The Art of the Sacred: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief. London: I. B. Tauris, 2007.
Knauss, Stefanie, and Alexander D. Ornella, eds. Reconfigurations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion in a Post-Secular Society. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2007.
Larcher, Gerhard. “Foundational Theology, Art, and Aesthetics: Methodological Interrelations.” In Reconfigurations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion in a Post-Secular Society, edited by Stefanie Knauss and Alexander D. Ornella, 19–27. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2007.
Nelson, Robert. The Spirit of Secular Art: A History of the Sacramental Roots of Contem- porary Artistic Values. Melbourne: Monash University ePress, 2007.
Nichols, Aidan. Redeeming Beauty: Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Olin, Margaret. The Nation without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Paglia, Camille. “Religion and the Arts in America.” Arion 15, no. 1 (2007): 1–20.
Nelson, Robert. The Spirit of Secular Art: A History of the Sacramental Roots of Contemporary Artistic Values. Melbourne: Monash University ePress, 2007.
2006
Andreopoulos, Andreas. Art as Theology: From the Postmodern to the Medieval. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Baigell, Matthew. American Artists, Jewish Images. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Bax, Marty. Het Web der Schepping: Theosofie en Kunst in Nederland van Lauweriks tot Mondriaan. Amsterdam: Boom, 2006.
Clark, T. J. The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
Larson, Kay, “Keeping the Faith.” ARTnews 105, no. 2 (2006): 98–100.
2005
Austin, Michael. Explorations in Art, Theology and Imagination. London: Equinox, 2005.
de Gruchy, John W. “Theology and the Visual Arts.” In The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918, 3rd ed., edited by David F. Ford with Rachel Muers, 706–18. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Mondzain, Marie-José. Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary (1996). Translated by Rico Franses. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.
Morgan, David. The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Plate, S. Brent. Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through the Arts. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Williams, Rowan. Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love. London: Morehouse, 2005.
2004
Baas, Jacquelynn, and Mary Jane Jacob, eds. Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Brown, David. God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Dyrness, William A. Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Elkins, James. On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Flanagan, Kieran. Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology, and Theology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Heartney, Eleanor. Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art. New York: Midmarch, 2004. (2nd ed. Chichester, NY: Silver Hollow Press, 2018)
Heller, Ena Giurescu, ed. Reluctant Partners: Art and Religion in Dialogue. New York: The Gallery at the American Bible Society, 2004.
Jasper, David. The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Thiessen, Gesa Elsbeth, ed. Theological Aesthetics: A Reader. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.
Zuidervaart, Lambert. Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
2003
Bergmann, Sigurd. In the Beginning Is the Icon: A Liberative Theology of Images, Visual Arts and Culture (2003). Translated by Anja K. Angelsen. New York: Routledge, 2016.
García-Rivera, Alejandro R. A Wounded Innocence: Sketches for a Theology of Art. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2003.
Gaskell, Ivan. “Sacred to Profane and Back Again.” In Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium, edited by Andrew McClellan, 149–62. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
Grenier, Catherine. L’art contemporain est-il chrétien? Nîmes: Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, 2003.
Hall, Bill, and David Jasper, eds. Art and the Spiritual. Sunderland: University of Sunderland Press, 2003.
Hart, David Bentley. The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003.
Mennekes, Friedhelm. Begeisterung und Zweifel: Profane und Sakrale Kunst. Regensberg: Lindinger & Schmid Verlag, 2003.
Paglia, Camille. “Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s.” Arion 10, no. 3 (2003): 57–111.
Promey, Sally M. “The ‘Return’ of Religion in the Scholarship of American Art.” The Art Bulletin 85, no. 3 (2003): 581–603.
2002
Baigell, Matthew. Jewish Artists in New York: The Holocaust Years. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Gamwell, Lynn. Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. (Rev. exp. ed., 2020)
Kuspit, Donald. “Reconsidering the Spiritual in Art.” Art Criticism 17, no. 2 (2002): 55–69.
Plate, S. Brent, ed. Religion, Art, and Visual Culture: A Cross-Cultural Reader. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
2001
Arthurs, Alberta, and Glenn Wallach, eds. Crossroads: Art and Religion in American Life. New York: The New Press, 2001.
Baigell, Matthew. Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Baigell, Matthew, and Milly Heyd, eds. Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
de Gruchy, John W. Christianity, Art and Transformation: Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Elkins, James. Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Morgan, David. “Religion in the Context of Art.” In Like a Prayer: A Jewish and Christian Presence in Contemporary Art, edited by Theodore Prescott, 19–31. Exhibition catalogue. Charlotte, NC: Tryon Center for Visual Art, 2001.
Morgan, David, and Sally M. Promey, eds. The Visual Culture of American Religions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Schwebel, Horst. Die Kunst und das Christentum: Geschichte eines Konflikts. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2001.
2000
Bal, Mieke. “Religious Canon and Literary Identity” (2000) and “Postmodern Theology as Cultural Analysis” (2001). In A Mieke Bal Reader, 415–40, 391–414. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Begbie, Jeremy S. Theology, Music and Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Bekkenkamp, Jonneke, et al., eds. Missing Links: Arts, Religion and Reality. Munich: LIT Verlag, 2000.
Besançon, Alain. The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm (1994). Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Bland, Kalman P. The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Brown, Frank Burch. Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Golding, John. Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Mennekes, Friedhelm. “Between Doubt and Rapture—Art and Church Today: The Spiritual in the Art of the Twentieth Century,” translated by Robert J. Daly. Religion and the Arts 4, no. 2 (2000): 165–83.
Philbrick, Harry. “Creating Faith.” In Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium, edited by Christian Eckart, Harry Philbrick, and Osvaldo Romberg, 14–20. Exhibition catalogue. Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000.
Pickstock, Catherine. “Liturgy, Art and Politics.” Modern Theology 16, no. 2 (2000): 159–80.
Silverman, Debora. Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.
Viladesau, Richard. Theology and the Arts: Encountering God through Music, Art, and Rhetoric. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2000.
1999
Brown, Glen R. “Toward a Topography of the Spiritual in Contemporary Art.” New Art Examiner 26, no. 6 (1999): 23–27.
Dillenberger, John. Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
García-Rivera, Alejandro R. The Community of the Beautiful: A Theological Aesthetics. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1999.
Heyd, Milly. Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Morgan, David. Protestants & Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Perlmutter, Dawn, and Debra Koppman, eds. Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Soussloff, Catherine M., ed. Jewish Identity in Modern Art History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Thiessen, Gesa Elsbeth. Theology and Modern Irish Art. Dublin: Columba Press, 1999.
Viladesau, Richard. Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
1998
Coleman, Earle J. Creativity and Spirituality: Bonds between Art and Religion. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Dillenberger, Jane. The Religious Art of Andy Warhol. New York: Continuum, 1998.
Freedberg, David, and Rosemary Crumlin. “Beyond Belief and the Power of the Image: David Freedberg Talking with Rosemary Crumlin.” In Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination, edited by Rosemary Crumlin, 12–15. Exhibition catalogue. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1998.
Kaplan, Janet A. “The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and the Shakers: A Conversation with Janet A. Kaplan.” Art Journal 57, no. 2 (1998): 4–27.
Morgan, David. Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Morley, Simon. “Holy Alliance.” Tate Magazine 16 (1998): 48–53.
Rombold, Günter. Ästhetik und Spiritualität: Bilder, Rituale, Theorien. Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1998.
1997
Adams, James Luther, and Wilson Yates, eds. The Grotesque in Art and Literature: Theological Reflections. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997.
Baigell, Matthew. Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Pinder, Kymberly N. “‘Our Father, God; Our Brother, Christ; or Are We Bastard Kin?’: Images of Christ in African American Painting.” African American Review 31, no. 2 (1997): 223–33.
1996
Cort, John E. “Art, Religion, and Material Culture: Some Reflections On Method.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64, no. 3 (1996): 613–32.
Dixon, John W. Images of Truth: Religion and the Art of Seeing. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
Marion, Jean-Luc. The Crossing of the Visible (1996). Translated by James K. A. Smith. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
Mennekes, Friedhelm. Joseph Beuys: Christus Denken/Thinking Christ. Stuttgart: Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1996.
1995
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. The Spirit and the Vision: The Influence of Christian Romanticism on the Development of 19th-Century American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Mennekes, Friedhelm. Künstlerisches Sehen und Spiritualität. Zürich: Artemis & Winkler, 1995.
Mennekes, Friedhelm. Triptychon: Moderne Altarbilder in St. Peter, Köln. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1995.
1994
Baumgarten, Barbara Dee Bennett. Visual Art as Theology. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.
Mennekes, Friedhelm, and Johannes Röhrig. Crucifixus: Das Kreuz in der Kunst unserer Zeit. Freiburg: Herder, 1994.
1992
Chrétien, Jean-Louis. The Call and the Response (1992). Translated by Anne A. Davenport. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004.
Dixon, John W. “Reckonings on Religion and Art.” Anglican Theological Review 74, no. 2 (1992): 267–75.
Taylor, Mark C. Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
1991
Adams, Doug. Transcendence with the Human Body in Art: George Segal, Stephen De Staebler, Jasper Johns, and Christo. New York: Continuum, 1991.
Gablik, Suzi. The Reenchantment of Art. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991.
Pattison, George. Art, Modernity and Faith: Restoring the Image (1991). 2nd ed. London: SCM Press, 1998.
1990
Didi-Huberman, Georges. Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art (1990). Translated by John Goodman. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2005.
Dillenberger, Jane. Image and Spirit in Sacred and Secular Art. Edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. New York: Crossroad, 1990.
Tisdall, Caroline, Louwrien Wijers, and Ike Kamphof, eds. Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy. The Hague: SDU, 1990.
1989
Brown, Frank Burch. Religious Aesthetics: A Theological Study of Meaning and Making. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Dillenberger, John. The Visual Arts and Christianity in America: From the Colonial Period to the Present. New York: Continuum, 1989.
Freedberg, David. The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
1988
Dillenberger, John. “Visual Arts and Religion: Modern and Contemporary Contours.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56, no. 2 (1988): 199–212.
Fuller, Peter. Theoria: Art and the Absence of Grace. London: Chatto & Windus, 1988.
Henry, Michel. Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky (1988). Translated by Scott Davidson. New York: Continuum, 2009.
Lipsey, Roger. An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art. Boston: Shambhala, 1988.
Rombold, Günter. Der Streit um das Bild: Zum Verhältnis von moderner Kunst und Religion. Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1988.
1987
Adams, Doug, and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, eds. Art as Religious Studies. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1987.
Regier, Kathleen J., ed. The Spiritual Image in Modern Art. Wheaton, IL: Quest/Theosophical Publishing House, 1987.
Tillich, Paul. On Art and Architecture [a collection of essays originally published between 1921 and 1965]. Edited by John Dillenberger and Jane Dillenberger. Translated by Robert P. Scharlemann. New York: Crossroad, 1987.
1986
Dillenberger, John. A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities: The Visual Arts and the Church. New York: Continuum, 1986.
1985
Dillenberger, John. “Contemporary Theologians and the Visual Arts.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 53, no. 4 (1985): 599–615.
Fuller, Peter. Images of God: The Consolations of Lost Illusions. London: Chatto & Windus, 1985.
Glueck, Grace. “Religion Makes an Impact as a Theme in Today’s Art.” New York Times, April 7, 1985, sec. 2.
Hussey, Walter. Patron of Art: The Revival of a Great Tradition among Modern Artists. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985.
Pickstone, Charles. “Mystical Dangers: A Note on One Tendency in Contemporary Art Criticism and Its Theological Implications.” Theology 88, no. 722 (1985): 125–29.
1984
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane, ed. Art, Creativity, and the Sacred: An Anthology in Religion and Art. New York: Crossroad, 1984.
1983
Birringer, Johannes H. “Constructions of the Spirit: The Struggle for Transfiguration in Modern Art.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 42, no. 2 (1983): 137–50.
Dixon, John W. “Art as the Making of the World: Outline of Method in the Criticism of Religion and Art.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 51, no. 1 (1983): 15–36.
1982
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. “To Create a New Universe: Mircea Eliade on Modern Art.” Cross Currents 32, no. 4 (1982–83): 408–19.
1981
Küng, Hans. Art and the Question of Meaning (1980). Translated by Edward Quinn. London: SCM Press, 1981.
Tracy, David. The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism. New York: Crossroad, 1981.
1980
Adams, Doug. The Art of Living: Aesthetic Values and the Quality of Life. Bellingham: Western Washington University Press, 1980.
Dillenberger, John. “The Diversity of Disciplines as a Theological Question: The Visual Arts as Paradigm.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 48, no. 2 (1980): 233–43.
Heyer, George S. Signs of Our Times: Theological Essays on Art in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980.
Laeuchli, Samuel. Religion and Art in Conflict. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.
Nichols, Aidan. The Art of God Incarnate: Theology and Image in Christian Tradition. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1980.
Seerveld, Calvin. Rainbows for a Fallen World: Aesthetic Life and Artistic Task. Toronto: Tuppence Press, 1980.
Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Art in Action: Towards a Christian Aesthetic. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980.
1979
Masheck, Joseph. “Iconicity.” Artforum 17, no. 5 (1979): 30–41.
Sheppard, Richard. “Dada and Mysticism: Influences and Affinities.” In Dada Spectrum: The Dialectics of Revolt, edited by Stephen C. Foster and Rudolf E. Kuenzli. Madison, WI: Coda Press and University of Iowa, 1979.
1978
Dixon, John W. Art and the Theological Imagination. New York: Seabury Press, 1978.
Masheck, Joseph, ed. “Five Unpublished Letters from Ad Reinhardt to Thomas Merton and Two in Return.” Artforum 17, no. 4 (1978): 23–27.
Rookmaaker, H. R. Art Needs No Justification. London: InterVarsity Press, 1970.
1977
Cook, John W. “Theology and the Arts: Sources and Resources.” Theology Today 34, no. 1 (1977): 45–51.
Marion, Jean-Luc. The Idol and Distance: Five Studies (1977). Translated by Thomas C. Carlson. New York: Fordham University Press, 2001.
Masheck, Joseph. “Cruciformality.” Artforum 15, no. 10 (1977): 56–63.
1976
Wilder, Amos N. Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. 1976.
1975
Rosenberg, Harold. “Metaphysical Feelings in Modern Art.” Critical Inquiry 2, no. 2 (1975): 217–32.
Rosenblum, Robert. Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
1974
Elderfield, John. “‘Dada’: A Code-Word for Saints?” Artforum (February 1974): 42-47.
1972
Martin, F. David. Art and the Religious Experience: The “Language” of the Sacred. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1972.
1971
Newport, John P. Theology and Contemporary Art Forms. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1971.
1970
Evdokimov, Paul. The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty (1970). Translated by Steven Bigham. Pasadena, CA: Oakwood, 1989.
Ringbom, Sixten. The Sounding Cosmos: A Study in the Spiritualism of Kandinsky and the Genesis of Abstract Painting (1970). Translated by Ruth Urbom and Anna Wohl. Stockholm: Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2022.
Rookmaaker, H. R. Modern Art and the Death of a Culture. London: InterVarsity Press, 1970.
1969
Dillenberger, Jane. Secular Art with Sacred Themes. Nashville: Abingdon, 1969.
Dixon, John W. Jr. “Faith and Twentieth-Century Forms.” Theology Today 26 (April 1969): 14-33.
1968
Seerveld, Calvin. A Christian Critique of Art and Literature. Toronto: Association for Reformed Scientific Studies, 1968.
1967
Hazelton, Roger. A Theological Approach to Art. Nashville: Abingdon, 1967.
1966
Harned, David Baily. Theology and the Arts. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1966.
Rosenberg, Harold. “Is There a Jewish Art?” Commentary 42, no. 1 (1966): 57–59.
1964
Dixon, John W. Nature and Grace in Art. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964.
1963
Régamey, Pie-Raymond. Religious Art in the Twentieth Century. New York: Herder & Herder, 1963.
1962
Eversole, Finley, ed. Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts. New York: Abingdon Press, 1962.
1961
Balthasar, Hans Urs von. The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics. Vol. 1, Seeing the Form (1961/1967). Edited by Joseph Fessio and John Riches. Translated by Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis. Edinburgh: T&T Clark; San Francisco: Ignatius, 1982.
Rosenblum, Robert. “The Abstract Sublime.” ARTnews 59, no. 10 (1961): 38–41, 56, 58.
1957
Dixon, John W. Jr. “On the Possibility of a Christian Criticism of the Arts.” Christian Scholar 40, no. 4 (Dec 1957): 296-306.
Gilson, Étienne. Painting and Reality. New York: Pantheon, 1957.
1953
Maritain, Jacques. Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. New York: Pantheon Books, 1953.
1952
Eliade, Mircea. Images and Symbols (1952). Translated by Philip Mairet. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
1951
Maritain, Jacques. The Responsibility of the Artist (1951). New York: Scribner, 1960.
1935
Maritain, Jacques. Art and Scholasticism and The Frontiers of Poetry (3rd ed., 1935). Translated by Joseph W. Evans. New York: Scribner, 1962.
1932
Van der Leeuw, Gerardus. Sacred and Profane Beauty: The Holy in Art (1932). Translated by David E. Green. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.
1926
Maritain, Jacques, and Jean Cocteau. Art and Faith: Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau (1926). Translated by John Coleman. New York: Philosophical Library, 1948.
1931
Berdyaev, Nicolas. The Destiny of Man (1931). Translated by Natalie Duddington. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.
1925
Florensky, Pavel. Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art (1913–25). Edited by Nicoletta Misler. Translated by Wendy Salmond. London: Reaktion Books, 2002.
1914
Berdyaev, Nicolas. The Meaning of the Creative Act (1914). Translated by Donald A. Lowrie. New York: Collier Books, 1962.
1911
Forsyth, P. T. Christ on Parnassus: Lectures on Art, Ethic, and Theology. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
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1905
Forsyth, P. T. Religion in Recent Art: Expository Lectures on Rosetti, Burne Jones, Watts, Holman Hunt, and Wagner (1889). 3rd ed. London: 27 Paternoster Row, 1905.