Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture
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The Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, or ARC, was founded in October 1961 by Marvin Halverson (b. 1913), an American Protestant theologian sometime of the Chicago Theological Seminary
and the author of a 1951 booklet, Great Religious Paintings. Its aims and program are based on the deep and complex relationship between religion and the arts. Its members have included W. H. Auden
, Erich Fromm
, Paul Tillich
and Marguerite Yourcenar
.
Alfred Barr, Jr., Founder-Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, was ARC's founding president. Other Fellows of the Society included Joseph Campbell, Cleanth Brooks, William J. Conklin, Denis de Rougemont, Mircea Eliade, Erich Fromm, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip C. Johnson, Douglas M. Knight, Sidney Lanier, Marianne Moore, Robert Motherwell, Luther Noss, Frank Thompson, Robert Penn Warren and Amost N. Wilder.
ARC published a periodical "ARC Directions", sponsored public lectures, and commissioned arts projects.
The Society meets three times a year, normally in New York City, on the first Thursday, Friday, or Saturday of February, May, and November.
Chicago Theological Seminary
The Chicago Theological Seminary is a seminary of the United Church of Christ. It prepares women and men for leadership in the church and society through Master of Divinity , Master of Arts in Religious Studies , Master of Sacred Theology , Doctor of Ministry , and Doctor of Philosophy programs...
and the author of a 1951 booklet, Great Religious Paintings. Its aims and program are based on the deep and complex relationship between religion and the arts. Its members have included W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
, Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a Jewish German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.-Life:Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am...
, Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century...
and Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.-Biography:Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie...
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Alfred Barr, Jr., Founder-Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, was ARC's founding president. Other Fellows of the Society included Joseph Campbell, Cleanth Brooks, William J. Conklin, Denis de Rougemont, Mircea Eliade, Erich Fromm, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip C. Johnson, Douglas M. Knight, Sidney Lanier, Marianne Moore, Robert Motherwell, Luther Noss, Frank Thompson, Robert Penn Warren and Amost N. Wilder.
ARC published a periodical "ARC Directions", sponsored public lectures, and commissioned arts projects.
The Society meets three times a year, normally in New York City, on the first Thursday, Friday, or Saturday of February, May, and November.