Inspiration and Discernment in Pentecostal Aesthetics

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Inspiration and Discernment in Pentecostal Aesthetics "
Steven Felix-Jager

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079642
Doc. No	:	LA123271
Call No	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02301009‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Steven Felix-Jager
Title & Author	:	Inspiration and Discernment in Pentecostal Aesthetics [Article]\ Steven Felix-Jager
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Pentecostal Theology
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	23/1
Page No	:	85–104
Abstract	:	This article attempts to define what an artist’s ‘interior promptings’ or inspirations are and to understand the role of the Holy Spirit in artistic inspiration and discernment. In so doing, divine inspiration is defined broadly so as to make room for artistic inspiration. This article also considers how the Holy Spirit influences human imaginations through experience and how inspirations are derived from these experiences. Different ways to understand religious and cultural worldviews are also examined. The concept of ‘seeing’ is considered to understand the Pentecostal agenda as attempting to cause a transformative paradigm shift in a person’s worldview. Finally, this article engages in dialogue with Pentecostal theologian Amos Yong in order to look at spiritual discernment and answer the question, ‘Does the Holy Spirit inspire art in other religious or secular traditions?’ This article attempts to define what an artist’s ‘interior promptings’ or inspirations are and to understand the role of the Holy Spirit in artistic inspiration and discernment. In so doing, divine inspiration is defined broadly so as to make room for artistic inspiration. This article also considers how the Holy Spirit influences human imaginations through experience and how inspirations are derived from these experiences. Different ways to understand religious and cultural worldviews are also examined. The concept of ‘seeing’ is considered to understand the Pentecostal agenda as attempting to cause a transformative paradigm shift in a person’s worldview. Finally, this article engages in dialogue with Pentecostal theologian Amos Yong in order to look at spiritual discernment and answer the question, ‘Does the Holy Spirit inspire art in other religious or secular traditions?’
Descriptor	:	aesthetics
Descriptor	:	art
Descriptor	:	discernment
Descriptor	:	imagination
Descriptor	:	inspiration
Descriptor	:	Pentecostalism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02301009‬