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Welcome to Amanuensis Gallery

The Dictionary explanation for Amanuensis is this:

A literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts.  The etymology of amanuensis:  In Latin, the phrase "servus a manu" translates loosely as “slave with secretarial (handwriting) duties’.  In the Cambridge English Dictionary: A person whose job is to write down what another person says….

We understand the creative energies that inspire us, and the work that we do, as coming from the God who created us and everything in this beautiful universe.  Throughout the Scriptures that we call the Bible, the understanding has been that God the creator pours out his creative energies on particular people, that they might declare the Glory of God.  These creative energies encompass visual imagery, drama, musical gifts, prose and poetic writing, and the myriad ways in which human beings can be creative.  The purpose of these creative energies is to reveal the God who created them. 

We chose the name 'Amanuensis', because it describes perfectly how we understand the creative energies we have and use.  We experience the wonder of God the creator in all the beauty of the creation, and we seek to display what we have imbibed through faithful expression of that inspiration. "Oh Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!  Your glory is higher than the heavens...When I look at the night sky and see the works of your fingers, the moon and stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?"  As well as the wonder of creation, we also seek to display the Glory of God experienced through his word to us in Scripture, and in particular, the experience of the Incarnate Word, Jesus, who perfectly displays the character of the God we worship.  

So this Gallery seeks to explore both the General Revelation of God, displayed through the universe, alongside the Special Revelation of God, displayed in the Word declared within the Christian Scriptures, but most especially in the 'Incarnate Word, and Son Jesus Christ, using the creative gifts given for that purpose, predominately visual (but not exclusively so).