The church has always recognized that an incarnational faith must be manifest in a fully incarnate liturgy, where the arts work together to edify all the senses…While sacred texts have the ability to explain facts and abstractions with great specificity and clarity, they are unable to impact our hearts with the sudden intensity of a tolling church bell or the astonishing beauty of an iconostasis.
– Andrew Gould, from An Icon of the Kingdom of God, pt. 1: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical Arts
Orthodox Arts Journal, 2012
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