Redeeming Bodies: God, Poetry, and Healing
Last autumn in the most unlikely of places—an academic conference in Oxford—I was reminded of the redemptive theological potential of the arts. In the…
Lori Kanitz is a Ph. D. candidate in Divinity at the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, as well as an Assistant Professor of English at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her dissertation examines ways Jewish mystical thought, particularly Hasidism, emerges in the work of American author Annie Dillard.
Last autumn in the most unlikely of places—an academic conference in Oxford—I was reminded of the redemptive theological potential of the arts. In the…