Art Theology, Seeing what we Overlooked and Making New Knowledge

Art Theology is a method that engages in making art in order to make new knowledge and understanding about theological ideas that discursive reasoning alone cannot provide.  Art Theology includes seeing art (with intention), but it is even more importantly about making art.  Art Theology is an interdisciplinary method grounded in the scholarship of art historians, Susanna Berger and Eyelet Evens-Ezra who have demonstrated that we have not fully understood theologians and philosophers before the 18th century because we overlooked their visual thinking.  The method is also grounded in the emerging cognitive science of The Extended Mind Theory.  Art Theology centers indigenous wisdom like matauranga Maori of Aotearoa New Zealand, that has never overlooked making in knowing.  This paper provides the research behind the workshop offered by the Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit: Art Theology, Non-Violence, and Wisdom from the Margins.