Matthew Henry John Bartlett

In The Gospel, Art and Aesthetic Theory, Duncan L Roper says:

The calling of art may be considered as offering strong and good parables concerning the Coming of the Kingdom in a Fallen World. Art that is characterised by such a Biblical contextual perspective will expose what is wrong in the world, but it will do so in a way that shows the humble triumph of grace and mercy. It will evoke the presence of God in all his transcendent glory, but will never vaunt piousness as a virtue. It will show a great breadth of perspective — one that recognises the depth of our human relation to the non-human environment, but in a way that never looks to it as a source of power or wisdom, for they lie with God alone. It will show joy in the midst of a sadness for the stains of sin and rebellion on the world. In this way it will be a parable of the coming of the Kingdom of God, and a testimony to the New Age to be inaugurated in its fulness with the return of Christ, the purifying of the earth and the resurrection of the dead.

[via DJM the Great]