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Dallas Baptist University in conjunction with the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature Presents:
"Alarming Necessities": Taste, Reading, and Theology
September 28-29, 2007, at the Hilton Arlington, in Arlington Texas.
Keynote speakers:
Stephen Prickett Director of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University
Frank Burch Brown Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts at Christian Theological Seminary.
"[A]s the eye follows the outline, suddenly Napoleon himself emerges from this nothing, and now it is impossible to have him disappear again. Once the eye has seen him, it goes on seeing him with almost alarming necessity."
--Søren Kierkegaard on the painting The Tomb of Napoleon
When something is beautiful or fitting, it has a way of seducing, even demanding our attention, yet not everyone recognizes or agrees on what is lovely or apropos. Taste seems to be a necessity to be moved by the beautiful book, painting, or song. It has been argued that theological and religious persuasions require a similar faculty or faith. In a pluralistic and polyvalent culture of reading and worship, is an ecumenism of taste possible in our liturgies, pedagogies, and criticism?
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