Conversations on Religion and the Arts: Episode 2 -- Wilson Yates and Robin Jensen

SARTS - Society for the Arts in Religious & Theological Studies

SARTS, the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, has created three podcasts that offer “Conversations on Religion and the Arts”. This is one of the three “Conversations” with theologians and historians of art Robin Jensen, William Dyrness, and Charles Pickstone: all figures who helped develop this modern dialogue. With moderator Wilson Yates, the discussion with Robin Jensen begins with broad strokes on her work as an art historian and historian of early Christian art. She then moves in light of that work to a criticism of those who interpret the meaning of art for the people without—as a good historian must—asking what the people say that meaning actually is for them. In the discussion she considers the experiences people have with art that moves them onto sacred ground and she explores the range of meanings that major religious symbols, such as the Cross—the subject of one of her books—have had down through history. It is a discussion of delightful repartee and a profound exploration of the interactions of art and the religious life. wy