Lyric Theology

Art is an outworking of God’s creative process, a tangible participation in the shaping of the world. Through our artistic endeavors, we both express our understanding of creation and imbue that creation with new meaning. Four artists in particular--the poet Czeslaw Milosz, filmmaker Terrence Malick, novelist Marilynne Robinson, and lyric essayist Annie Dillard--actively wrestle with a world that reflects God’s glory while remaining at times deeply and troublingly obscure. In Lyric Theology , Th