Tikkun Olam—To Mend the World is premised on the conviction that artists and theologians have things to learn from one another, things about the complex interrelationality of life and about a coherence of things given and sustained by God. The ten essays compiled in this volume seek to attend to the lives, burdens, and hopes that characterize human life in a world broken but unforgotten, in travail but moving towards the freedom promised by a faithful Creator. They reflect on whether the world—wounded as it is by war, by hatred, by exploitation, by neglect, by reason, and by human imagination itself—can be healed. Can there be repair? And can art and theology tell the truth of the world's woundedness and still speak of its hope? Table of Contents Foreword: Alfonse Borysewicz Introduction: Jason Goroncy 1. “Prophesy to these Dry Bones”: The Artist’s Role in Healing the Earth—William Dyrness 2. Cosmos, Kenosis, and Creativity—Trevor Hart 3. Re-forming Beauty: Can Theological Sense Accommodate Aesthetic Sensibility? — Carolyn Kelly 4. Questioning the Extravagance of Beauty in a World of Poverty—Jonathan Ryan 5. Living Close to the Wound—Libby Byrne 6. The Sudden Imperative and Not the Male Gaze: Reconciliatory Relocations in the Art Practice of Allie Eagle—Joanna Osborne and Allie Eagle 7. Building from the Rubble: Architecture, Memory, and Hope—Murray Rae 8. The Interesting Case of Heaney, the Critic, and the Incarnation—John Dennison 9. New Media Art Practice: A Challenge and Resource for Multimedia Worship—Julanne Clarke-Morris 10. Silence, Song, and the Sounding-Together of Creation—Steven Guthrie