Review: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts, 2 Vol.
Timothy Beal, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts, 2 vol. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Part of The Oxford…
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Review: Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry
Robert MacSwain, ed., Scripture, Metahysics, and Poetry: Austin Farrer’s The Glass of Vision With Critical Commentary. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013, 221 pp., £60.00/$109.95, cloth. I first read Austin Farrer’s The…
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Review: Tables in the Wilderness
Preston Yancey, Tables in the Wilderness: A Memoir of God Found, Lost, and Found Again. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2014, 240 pp., £12.99/$19.99 cloth. This book’s…
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Review: Heavenly Participation
Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011, xii + 206 pp., £12.99/$22.00 paper. No stranger to Transpositions, Hans Boersma here…
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Review: The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art & Architecture
Peter and Linda Murray, and Tom Devonshire Jones, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art & Architecture, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xii + 654…
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Review: The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso
Jane Dagget Dillenberger and John Handley, The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014, xii + 108 pp., £27.95/$39.95 cloth. The book presented…
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Jamini Roy and the Lesson of (Visual) Contextualization
On a recent trip to India I visited the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. I confess I knew little to nothing about Indian…
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Review: The Founding of Aesthetics
Stefanie Buchenau, The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment: The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, viii +…
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Review: What is Contemporary Art?
Terry Smith, What is Contemporary Art? Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, xiv + 329 pp., £17.50/$25.00, paper. Terry Smith begins: “No idea…
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