Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life

Christians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style. Yet they usually lack any theology of art or taste adequate to deal with aesthetic disputes. In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, "ecumenical" approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment -- a non-elitist but discriminating theological aesthetics that has "teeth but no fangs."