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Seeing Salvation: Images of Christ in Art (review)

267 While Barry Callen strives to be open to a diversity of Christian spiritual traditions, inevitably there are limits. Choices must be made. For instance, the spirituality encouraged in this book is weak on the sacramental. Although one of the six spiritual traditions he discusses is the incarnational, the sacramental dimension is not given much attention. Participation in the Lord’s Supper is encouraged more than once, to be sure. But baptism is barely mentioned and plays no ongoing role in the Christian life. Visual/ physical symbols generally do not play any significant role. Here the highly verbal nature of Evangelicalism rules. More surprising, given the great contributions of Charles and John Wesley, is the very little attention given to hymnody as a powerful means of grace. In fact, the rather didactic tone of the book generally runs contrary to the stated concern for a revival of heart religion. Didactic language speaks to the head, but the heart feeds on the symbolic in language, music, and physical objects. Nevertheless, Barry Callen deserves praise for his effort to move beyond the confines of a single Christian spiritual tradition to incorporate riches from others. One lesson here is that our core commitments will govern the choices made.