Explain how richard viladesau understands arts

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Assignment:

Read Viladesau, Richard. 2000. Theology and the Arts: Encountering God through Music, Art and Rhetoric Chap. 1, 11-58.

1 - In a brief analysis, explain how Richard Viladesau understands Arts.

2 - What do you make of Richard Viladesau's suggestion that the arts might be "the most effective remaining point of contact between the secular mind and the sacred" (p13)?

3 - What does it mean to suggest that music serves a "hermeneutic function" with respect to texts (p. 48)?

4- Might something similar be argued with respect to images?

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