Narrative art and narrative text: Media ecology principles for education.

The article focuses on the educational potential of combining biblical narrative art and accompanying scriptural texts, using the eight murals depicting the life of the apostle Paul in the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London as a case study. It argues that integrating visual art with narrative text can enhance understanding of history, literature, and biblical literacy by engaging both analogue (right-brain) and digital (left-brain) cognitive processes. Drawing on media ecology principles—an approach that studies media as dynamic environments influencing human perception and culture—the article highlights how shifts in dominant communication forms affect world-views and cognition. It concludes that biblical narrative art and text together offer valuable resources for media literacy, moral education, and fostering transcendent narratives in a technologically driven society.