Lifeview and perception of message in drama

Abstract

One would have thought that after nearly nineteen centuries Christianity should have arrived at a generally acceptable point of view regarding the true status of the arts in a Christian community. If one looks, however, at the often vicious quarreling in our own day not only between Christian and non-Christian but often also between Christian and Christian, on matters pertaining to the religious nature, aim and methods of the arts, then it would seem as if the age-old controversy between church and the arts has not been resolved by a long shot.