WILLIAM A. DYRNESS
D.Théol., University of Strasbourg, France
Doctorandus, Free University, Amsterdam
Post-Doctoral, Cambridge University, England
Selected Publications and Presentations
Books
| 2019 | Seeking Church: Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom. Downers Grove: IVP Academic. Darren Todd Duerksen, co-author. | ||
| The Arts as Witness in Multifaith Contexts. Downers Grove: IVP Academic. Roberta Rose King, co-author. | |||
| The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe: Calvin’s Reformation Poetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |||
| 2016 | Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press. Co-author with Jonathan Anderson. | ||
| Insider Jesus. Downers Grove: IVP Academic. | |||
| 2015 | Theology without Borders: An Introduction to Global Conversations.Grand Rapids: Baker. Co-author with Oscar Garcia Johnson. | ||
| 2012 | The Senses of Devotion:Interfaith Aesthetics in Buddhist and Muslim Communities. Eugene: Cascade Books. | ||
| 2011 | Poetic Theology: God and the Poetics of Everyday Life. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. |
Articles and Essays
| 2021 | “Theology and Visual Culture in Early Modern Calvinism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism. Edited by Bruce Gordon and Carl R. Trueman. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |||
| “Aesthetics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards. Edited by Douglas A. Sweeney and Jan Stievermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | ||||
| 2019 | “Text and Media: Portraits and Representation in Elizabethan England.” In Arts, Portraits and Representation in the Reformation Era: Proceedings of the FourthReformation Research Consortium Conference: with 111 figures. Edited by Patrizio Foresta, Federica Meloni. Göttingen :Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. | |||
| 2016 | “Poised between life and death: the imago Dei after Eden.” In The image of God in an Image Driven Age: Explorations in Theological Anthropology. Edited by Beth Felker Jones and Jeffrey W. Barbeau. Downers Grove: IVP. | |||
| 2015 | “Listening for Fresh Voices in the History of the Church.” In Teaching Global Theologies: Power and Praxis. Edited by Kwok Pui-lan, Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu, and Dwight N. Hopkins. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. | |||
| “God’s Play: Calvin, Theatre and the Rise of the Book.” In Calvin and the Book: The Evolution of the Printed Word in Reformed Protestantism. Edited by Karen E.Spierling. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. | ||||
| “Learning to Listen: Reflections on Interreligious Aesthetics.” Journal of Interreligious Studies16, no. 16: 59-62. | ||||
| 2014 | “Things Come Alive: The Art of Olga Lay.” Image Magazine(Spring). | |||
| 2013 | “Prophesy to these dry bones! The artists’ role in healing the earth.” In “Tikkun Olam”: To Mend the World: AConfluence of Theology and the Arts. Edited by Jason Goroncy. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. | |||
| 2012 | “Illuminate: Visual Imagery in the Church.” Worship Leader Magazine(December 2012): 27-28. | |||
| “Is Art Really Useless?”Arts: Arts in Religious and Theological Studies23, no. 3 (Fall): 30-32. | ||||
| “The Perception of Spirituality: Hans Holbein’s ‘The French Ambassadors.’” In Art as Spiritual Perception: Essays in Honor of E. John Walford. Edited by James Romaine. Wheaton: Crossways Books. | ||||
| “Subjectivity and Modern Art: Theological Reflections on Jacques Maritain and Charles Taylor.” In Arte, Fede, Suggestivita.Edited by Stefanie Krauss.Bologne: Centro per le Science Religiose. English translation in CrossCurrents. Vol 63. No. 1. Sp. ‘13. | ||||
| 2010 | “Seeing Through the Darkness: Georges Rouault’s vision of Christ.” Image (Summer). | |||
| Interview on Globalization and the Arts.CIVA Seen (Spring). | ||||
| “Dancing to Strange Music: Diversity and Faith in the Visual Arts.”Image no. 65: (Summer): 61-65. |