Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts

It is hard to evaluate this book according to the author's intended purpose. Certainly, Ryken succeeds in demonstrating the value of art to God and, consequently, the value of art to the people of God. However, this book creates more questions than it answers. What is the difference between art and non-art? Between bad art and good art? How are we to evaluate? Usually, I would not hold it against the author for not discussing that which is outside his stated bounds of inquiry. However, these questions are fundamental to the issue and should have received some consideration to adequately guide the Christian community to adopt a proper stance toward the arts.

Short but powerful!

A short and yet quite thought-provoking read! I liked this especially as a primer to refine my own thinking on the arts and why I write.

This is a good book about the Christian's view of the arts. It is along the same vein as Schaeffer's Art and the Bible. I plan on using the principles he outlined with my 11th grade Omnibus class: Building a Christian Worldview.