Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
The current revival of interest in craft traditions, by makers and scholars alike, brings our attention to particular intersections of material techniques, social relationships, pedagogical habits, and attitudes toward beauty, utility, and creativity. The approaches to artistic production found in craft communities point us away from sharp distinctions between “high” and “low” art, between solitary geniuses and nameless workers, between influence, imitation, and innovation. In this carefully argued book, Morwenna Ludlow asks what we would gain if we regarded late antique Christian literary production in a similar light. Ludlow recasts a collection of debates over imitation, rhetoric, early Christian pedagogy, and theology as interconnected elements of a literary craft tradition.
Recommended Citation
Robinson, Dana, "Review of Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors" (2022). Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics. 119.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/hist_fac/119
Comments
Originally published in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. 2022. Volume 51. Issue 3. Pages 420 - 422.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00084298211043348