'The double helix proves the existence of God': art and science in dialogue with Salvador Dali's religious imagination
Smith, Alan (2016)
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2016
Kuvaus
Alan Smith, Florida Southern College
W. Alan Smith is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida where he taught for almost thirty years. He served as Executive Secretary of the Religious Education Association from 2006–11. Dr Smith is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) with standing in the Florida Region, and has served as pastor of congregations in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, California, and Florida. His fields of research include religious education, practical theology, biblical theology, and theology and the arts – which has been his area of most recent study. He is the co-author, with Ruth Illman, of Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith (Routledge 2013), Children Belong in Worship: A Guide to the Children’s Sermon (CBP Press 1984), and numerous articles in journals including Religious Education, Teaching Theology and Religion, Journal on Public Policy, and ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies.
W. Alan Smith is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida where he taught for almost thirty years. He served as Executive Secretary of the Religious Education Association from 2006–11. Dr Smith is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) with standing in the Florida Region, and has served as pastor of congregations in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, California, and Florida. His fields of research include religious education, practical theology, biblical theology, and theology and the arts – which has been his area of most recent study. He is the co-author, with Ruth Illman, of Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith (Routledge 2013), Children Belong in Worship: A Guide to the Children’s Sermon (CBP Press 1984), and numerous articles in journals including Religious Education, Teaching Theology and Religion, Journal on Public Policy, and ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies.
Tiivistelmä
The later artistic work of Salvador Dali demonstrates a dialogue involving new developments in science in the 1940s and 1950s as metaphysical clues to inform his religious imagination and inspire a new era in Dali’s art: nuclear mysticism.