Jenneth Leed

“When we first read about the image of God in people in Genesis 1, we have as yet heard nothing about God as redeemer or the God of providence or the covenant God or the God of moral truth. The one thing that we know about God is that he created the world. In its immediate narrative context, then, the doctrine of the image of God in people emphasizes that people, are, like God, creators.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“A civilization cannot be a civilization without the arts. A great civilization is an art form of the highest order.”
― Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

“Chad Walsh, a contemporary Christian poet, writes that the creative artist 'can honestly see himself as a kind of earthly assistant to God (so can the carpenter), carrying on the delegated work of creation, making the fullness of creation fuller.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“The first thing the Bible does is introduce us to the God of the universe. He is introduced as a creative artist.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts