A common narrative of modern art in academic literature is that religion plays a constructive role in the development of modern art.

The author suggests that we should rethink about modern art narrative to understand how Christian influences and impulses shape modern art

Three reasons of secularity given by Charles Taylor include rejection of religion, fragile religion, and _________________of religion

_________________ refers to the sociocultural conditions of modernization-especially the complex transformations associated with industrialization, urbanization and democratization-which profoundly reshapes the attitudes, presuppositions and patterns of life fitted to those conditions.

Central to modernism was an ambition to be more fully and freely "alive" in the face of and in resistance to all that was deadening and dehumanizing about modern life

It is not that modern art rejects God; it is that it contests the belief of God

Artists respond to the context of suffering and cruelty of modern life such as sweatshops, world wars, death camps, nuclear warfare, genocides, environmental catastrophes...This does not necessitate the rejection of religion, but does imply a __________________relation to its traditions

__________________concern means seeking to understand life in relation to the presence and absence of God

Theological thinking about modern art means ________________of religious question into the conversation

The limitation of this book is that it only looks at Western modernism, Euro-American art. It does not mention other religions such as Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Native American spirituality