At BreakPoint, Jerry Eisley writes about the relationship of art to worship, and about what he calls the "temple of the museum." He suggests that removing "religious art" from the context of worship has had the curious effect of making museums, rather than churches, the center of our culture:
...in every time and place and in every culture, art has ultimately flowed from worship. Man cannot help but worship. He was born for it, he was designed for it, and he will do it no matter what. Through the use of museums rather than churches to facilitate a kind of worship, the lens through which all of us view the arts (the high arts as well as pop culture) has become defined by the philosophy of the art establishment. By identifying and supplying spirituality for contemporary Western culture, the museum has become the new temple.
And now, he argues, "the museum" is facing problems similar to those the church experienced decades ago. He closes with some thoughts about how Christians can re-establish the church's age-old, worshipful relationship with art.
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