Preston Yancey Reviews Creative Theology

I know you’re supposed to say this…but I mean it. I was honored to have Preston Yancey review Creative Theology over on his blog. A few quotes from the review:

We are taken into a conversation that expects a response, a narrative that we find our very being within, whether we realize it or not.

Sam is careful to identify each and every one of us as creatives, not as artists. The advantage to this is multifaceted. First, he takes care in allowing those called to the discipline of art to find their calling legitimate. Second, while honoring the call of the artist, he also honors the creative call that is upon all of us, upholds it, and recognizes that the children of God by nature create, but their awareness of this beauty is often truncated by self-deprecation and doubt. Sam manages to at once universalize the creative spirit and, at the same time, keep the integrity of the artist’s particular vocation.

Sam envisions what I would consider one of the more realistic hopes for the Church when it comes to its relationship to the arts.

you can read the entire review here. While you’re over there, check out his latest venture, At the Lord’s Table, a conversation with 54 authors, which is an impressive undertaking.