In the manner of Paul Ricoeur's attempt to show the relative adequacy of the Adamic myth of evil over the Orphic myth or of Reinhold Niebuhr's still masterful if methodologically muted attempt to show the relative adequacy of the Judeo - Christian understanding of historical passage, the contemporary revisionist theologian can find
public ways to
articulate the relative experiential adequacy of particular
symbol systems.
Trained as a painter and introduced to conceptual art in college, Charlesworth developed a deeper interest in photography and its ability to deconstruct our shared
symbols and
public imagery in ways that
articulate and question the values and beliefs of our culture.