Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts

Home, Away, & Home-Again

Join DITA for a new kind of concert that explores how music unlocks a three-fold
rhythm of the Gospel: from home, to away, and home-again. Never has an orchestra
this size played in Goodson Chapel, and never has Duke Divinity woven teaching and
music together like this,
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Theology, Modernity, & the Visual Arts

DITA is thrilled to announce that our next research project, Theology, Modernity, &
the Visual Arts (TMVA) has received full-funding from McDonald Agape Foundation.
Opening Convocation

Join Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts for two days of fine art, stimulating
lectures with renowned historians and theologians, and an exciting musical
performance featuring over thirty musicians from top orchestras in the nation.
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Our Mission

Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA) promotes a vibrant engagement between Christian theology and the arts at Duke Divinity School and beyond. Through research, teaching, and events, it is dedicated to showing how the arts can be enriched by theology, and theology in turn renewed through the arts.

At the heart of DITA’s vision is this key insight: the arts (including music, visual arts, and literature) do not just illustrate theology but are themselves modes of theological expression. The arts shape the imagination of the community and provide the forms through which many people most directly encounter the message of the gospel.

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“When it comes to the interplay between faith and the
arts, we need dynamic and imaginative leaders.
Through DITA, I am trying to stimulate and encourage
the best Christian minds I know to take the arts seriously.”

Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology

Professor Begbie is the director of DITA and author of numerous publications on
theology and the arts, including Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening.

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