{"id":4923,"date":"2013-11-05T12:26:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2013-11-05T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:26:48","slug":"why-does-art-so-deeply-touch-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/why-does-art-so-deeply-touch-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Art So Deeply Touch Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131105-122112.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131105-122112.jpg\" alt=\"20131105-122112.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerram Barrs marked me good. I don&#8217;t live out the biblical vision he gave me like I wish I did&#8211;but I still am moved each time I come across his life and teaching. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/byfaithonline.com\/echos-of-eden\/\">recently interviewed<\/a> about his new book. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aw\/d\/1433535971\">Echoes of Eden<\/a>,\u201d Covenant Seminary professor Jerram Barrs explores why certain books, movies, and plays resonate with something that\u2019s deep within us. In the process, he provides a framework for thinking biblically about art; he shows readers how, as Christians, to read and evaluate literature; and he reveals what some of our most influential writers have in common \u2014 from Shakespeare, to Jane Austen, to Tolkien, to C.S. Lewis, and J.K. Rowling.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/why-does-art-so-deeply-touch-us\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131105-122112.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerram Barrs marked me good. I don&#8217;t live out the biblical vision he gave me like I wish I did&#8211;but I still am moved each time I come across his life and teaching. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/byfaithonline.com\/echos-of-eden\/\">recently interviewed<\/a> about his new book. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aw\/d\/1433535971\">Echoes of Eden<\/a>,\u201d Covenant Seminary professor Jerram Barrs explores [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-1hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}