Laura Allison, Celebration: Banners, Dance and Holiness in Worship, Wilmington,Pa: SonRise, 1987
Diane Appostolos-Cappadona, ed., Art Creativity, and the Sacred, New York: Crossroad, 1989
Diane Appostolos-Cappadona, ed., Dictionary of Christian Art, New York: Continuum, 1994
Mark P. Bangert, Symbols and Terms of the Church, Minneapolis: Augsburg-Fortress, 1990
Susan A. Blain, Imaging the Word: An Arts and Lectionary Resource, voi. 2, United Church Press, 1995
Richard R. Caemmerer, Jr., Visual Art in the Lfe of the Church: Encouraging Creative Worship and Witness in the Congregation, Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1983
Nancy Chinn, Spaces for Spirit: Adorning the Church, Chicago, Liturgy Training Publications,1989
Jane Dillenberger, Style and Content in Christian Art, New York: Crossroad, 1986
Linda M. Goens, Praising God through the Lively Arts, Abingdon Press, 1999
Sarah Hall, The Color of Light: Commissioning Stained Glassfor a Church, Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications
Kenneth T. Lawrence, editor, Imaging the Word: An Arts and Lectionary Resource, vol. 3, United Church Press, 1996
Kenneth T. Lawrence, editor, Imaging the Word: An Arts and Lecrionary Resource, vol. 1, United Church Press, 1994 Joyce Mori, Crosses of Many Cultures: Designsfor Applique, Morehouse, 1998
David Philippart, Clothed in Glory: Vesting the Church, Liturgy Training Publishers, 1995
Virginia Raguin, Glory in Glass: Stained Glass in the United States : Origin, Variety, and Preservation. Exhibition catalogue, The Gallery at the American Bible Society. New York: American Bible Society, 1999
Thomas G. Simons and James M. Fitzpatrick, The Ministry of Liturgical Environment, Collegeville, Minnesota: Collegeville, Minn., The Liturgical Press, 1978
Alva William Steffler, Symbols of the Christian Faith, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans Pub., 2002
Eleanore Feucht Sudbrock, Seasons for Praise: Art for the Sanctuary, Concordia 2001 Robert E. Webber, the Creative Mixture of Old and New. Abingdon Press, 1998
Robert E. Webber, Achieving Substance and Relevance in Worship, Hendrickson, 1996
Robert E. Webber, editor, Music and the Arts in Christian Worship, 2 vols. Hendrickson Pub., Inc., 1995
Robert E Wunderlich, Worship and the Arts: A Study of the LIfe of the Church Expressed in Worship and the Arts, St. Louis: Concordia Pub. House, 1966
For Studies of Art, Worship, Worship Space, and Liturgy
African American Experience in Worship and the Arts, New Haven: Yale University Institute of Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, 1992
Doug Adams and Michael Moynahan, editors, Post-Modern Worship and the Arts, San Jose: Resource Pub., 2002
John W. Cook, “To a Parish on the Verge of Construction or Renovation, “pamphlet published by the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, Division of the Evangelism and Local Church Development, in Partnership with the Fellowship of United Church of Christ Architects. No date
Janet R. Walton, Art and Worship: A Vital Connection, Wilmington : M. Glazier, Inc., 1988
James F. White and Susan J. White, Church Architecture: Building and &Renovating for Christian Worship, Nashville : Abingdon Press, 1988
James F. White, Protestant Worship and Church Architecture: Theological and Historical Considerations, New York : OxFord Univ. Press, 1964 James F. White, Introduction to Christian Worship, Abingdon: Nashville, 1980
Peter W. Williams, Houses of God: Region, Religion, and Architecture in the United States, Urban, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1997
For Attitudes toward Religion and the Arts
Alberta Arthurs arid Glenn Wallach, editors, Crossroads: Art and Religion in American LIfe, New York: The New Press, 2001
Earl Jerome Coleman, Creativity and Spirituality: Bonds Between Art and Religion, State Univ. of New York Press, 1998
John W. DeGruchy, Christianity, Art and Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
John Dillenberger, A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities: The Visual Arts and the Church, New York: Crossroad, 1986
William Dyrness, Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2001
Paul Corby Finney, editor, Seeing beyond the Word: the Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999
*Frank E. Gaebelein, The Christian, the Arts, and Truth: Regaining the Vision of Greatness, Portland: Multnomah Press, 1985 [Good book to begin reading]
Paul Giles, American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics, Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992
Gregor T. Goethals, The TV Ritual: Worship at the Video Altar, Boston: Beacon Press, 1981
George S. Heyer, Signs of Our Times: Theological Essays on Art in the Twentieth Century, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980
Albert Rouet, Liturgy and the Arts, Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1996
Franky Schaeffer, Addicted to Mediocrity: 20th Century Christians and the Arts, Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1981
Richard Viladesau, Theology and the Arts: Encountering God through Music, Art, and Rhetoric, Paulist Press, 2000
*Donald Whittle, Christianity and the Arts, Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1966 [Good book to begin reading)
* Wilson Yates, The Arts in Theological Education: New Possibilities for Integration, Atlanta :Scholars Press, 1988 [Good book to begin reading.]
Resources on Internet or from catalogs
Ecclesiastical Arts Catalog and/or Handcrafted Paraments.
www.augsburgfortress.org
Christian perspectives on the various arts.
http://www.artsmag.org
Christians in the Visual Arts
http://www.civa.org
Free Christian Photography
http://www.freestockphotos.com/Christian.html
The Index of Christian Art. A database of Christian Art provided by Princeton University. http://ica.princeton.edu/
Religious Art on the Web. List featuring contemporary Christian art and artists.http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/links/contemp_relig.html
Cathy Townley, “Musings on Art- and the Relationship to Worship in the 21st Century,”
http://www.next-wave.org/apr00/musings_on_art.htm
Jerry Hames, “Adding Art To Worship: Nancy Chinn transforms Liturgical Spaces,”http://arc.episcopalchurch.org/episcopal-life/ASChinn.html\
“Environment and Art for Worship,” Assembly, Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy, http://liturgy.nd.edu/assembly/
Supply catalog for gossamer and other “environment” materials.
http://www.stumpsprom.com
“Stumps”catalog: phone number 1-800-348-5084
Silk fabric and dye supplies
www.dharmatrading.com
Dharma Trading Co: phone number 1-800-542-5227.
Images of Christ
Gabriele Finaldi, The Image of Christ, London: National Gallery; distributed by Yale Univ. Press, 2000
David Morgan, Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious images, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
Jaroslav Pelkian, The Illustrated Jesus through the Centuries, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997
Masao Takenaka and Ron O’Grady, The Bible through Asian Eyes, Auckland, New Zealand: Pace Pub., 1991
Anton Wessels, Images ofJesus: How Jesus is Perceived and Portrayed in Non-European Cultures, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990
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