Konner Johnson - Van der Leeuw on Art: Drama

Van der Leeuw is a Dutch theologian who writes a lot about how art is a form of worship. He speaks about five types of art specifically and how they are a means of worship for praising God. I will be writing a blog on each of the five types with this being the first type.

The first type of praise comes in the form of drama. "Art is not an imitation of the movement of life. Art has its own movement. 'Art doe snot reproduce the simple object, but only the object which has already been perceived aesthetically. One might say, paradoxically, that art is not an imitation of things, but an imitation (arbitrary production) of aesthetic experiences." I think this is very true. Art has its totally own type of movement to itself. One can use drama and acting to worship God. However with that said I think that dramatic worship is the hardest form out of the four types that will be talked about. "To express the holy by mean son the human is certainly the most difficult and the most amazing problem which religious art has to master." It is a difficult problem like I said to show the beauty of holiness, through the movements of an individual, but it can be great when it is achieved.