LAB the Podcast with Dr. Winfield Bevins | How Beauty Will Save the World

About this episode

Zach Elliott interviews Dr. Winfield Bevins about the significance of beauty and the arts in spiritual formation and the Church.

In this episode of LAB the Podcast, Zach Elliott sits down with Author, Artist, Theologian, and Founder of Creo Arts, Dr. Winfield Bevins, for a rich conversation on beauty, imagination, spiritual formation, and the renewal of the arts within the Church. Together, they explore Dr. Bevins’ new book, How Beauty Will Save the World, and discuss why beauty matters in a disenchanted age, how the arts shape the soul, why the Church abandoned beauty, and what it means to become “missionaries of beau...

People in this episode

Host: Zach Elliott

Guest: Dr. Winfield Bevins

Topics covered

• beauty
• spiritual formation
• arts in the Church
• imagination
• renewal of the arts

Keywords

• beauty
• spiritual formation
• arts
• Church
• imagination
• disenchanted age
• missionaries of beauty

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Creo Arts

Books & works: How Beauty Will Save the World

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