W. David O. Taylor
About
David O. Taylor is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. His books include To Set the World Aflame: How Artists Bear Witness to the Fullness of God’s Creation (Brazos, 2026); Naming the Spirit: Pneumatology Through the Arts (co-edited with Daniel Train; IVP Academic, 2025); A Body of Praise: Understanding the Role of Our Physical Bodies in Worship (Baker Academic, 2023); Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts (Eerdmans, 2019); and The Theater of God’s Glory: Calvin, Creation, and the Liturgical Arts (Eerdmans, 2017). An Anglican priest, he has written essays for a range of publications, including Calvin Theological Journal, Image Journal, The Washington Post, the T&T Clark Companion to Theology and the Arts (ed. Stephen M. Garrett and Imogen Adkins; Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), and Theology, Modernity and the Visual Arts (ed. Ben Quash and Chloe Reddaway; Brepols, 2024). He serves on the advisory board of IVP Academic’s series, Studies in Theology and the Arts, and is currently engaged in a three-year scholarly project on Theology and the Visual Arts, hosted out of King’s College, London. In 2016 he produced a short film on the Psalms with Bono and Eugene Peterson. He lives east of Austin, Texas, with his artist wife and their children.