Gritty Hope and the Gift of Art

Name: Gritty Hope and the Gift of Art
Start: 2025-03-14T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Holy Trinity Anglican Church - Colorado Springs

Schedule

Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Holy Trinity Anglican Church - Colorado Springs | Gleneagle, CO

We are desperate for hope, but what kind of hope can art provide?
Some claim that art should portray reality rather than seeking to provide hope. Others run to art as an escape, seeking sentimental comfort but failing to deal with reality. Art at its best, however, can bear witness to a weighty, gritty hope, one that does not evade the brokenness of life while pointing to a beauty that lasts.
In this lecture, Dr. Wesley Vander Lugt from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary will explore how art can give us visions of the new heavens and earth and do justice to the way things currently are. These visions can activate our individual imaginations and collective will to stay with the trouble as we are sustained by hope. Art can help us grapple with catastrophe while orienting our lives toward eucatastrophe, allowing our troubled souls to breathe more deeply.
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Sponsored by the Nicaea Study Center and The Anselm Society
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Wes Vander Lugt teaches theology and is the Acting Director of the Leighton Ford Center for Theology, the Arts, and Gospel Witness. Dr. Vander Lugt also Co-Founded the organization Kinship Plot, which is a community dedicated to uplifting resonant relationships. Dr. Vander Lugt has served in ministry roles of many kinds, and has served as an advocate for beauty and the arts. He recently published a book called "Beauty is Oxygen."