Art Seeking Understanding - Paperbackby David Lyle Jeffrey (Editor), Robert C. Roberts (Editor) Fides quaerens intellectum is the idea that living faith naturally seeks a more complete understanding of God in relation to his creation. It has motivated Christian education from the very start. Although Ars quaerens intellectum "art seeking understanding" is by contrast a contemporary locution, in the Christian context of this volume it is a parallel to the more familiar phrase. "Art" here