[EDITOR’S NOTE: Our series on The Art of Church Architecture continues as Kate Banks reflects on ‘The Luminous Darkness of Westminster Cathedral’. For more information, see our Series Launch.] Rumours have been circulating in some London Catholic circles that the…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Ewan Bowlby launches our series on The Art of Church Architecture with this introduction. You may see the associated first piece in the series, originally posted in late 2019, here: Charlemagne in Chartres: Looking at Stained Glass.] As…
Light coming through a stained-glass window is one of those effects unique to the church space—we can hardly witness it anywhere else. Despite, or perhaps because of my amateur love for medieval art history, I was always convinced that the…
Timothy Verdon, editor. The Ecumenism of Beauty. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2017, 128pp. $28.99 hardcover. This book brings together a collection of essays on the role and practice of Christian visual art. The seven authors are a variety of Catholic,…
Jill K. H. Geoffrion. Visions of Mary: Art, Devotion, and Beauty at Chartres Cathedral. Paraclete Press, 2017. 192 pp. Colour illlus. ISBN: 978-1-61261-894-4. £17.98 hardcover. The unparalleled intact collection of medieval stained glass in Chartres cathedral has long been justly…
Jeremy S. Begbie. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, viii + 261 (272) pp., £35.00 hardback. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening (henceforth, MMG), by Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of…
It is fitting to write a reflection on the idiosyncratic artwork of Pieter Jansz Saenredam from the peculiar comfort of Martyrs Kirk library in St Andrews, especially in the year that marks the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.…
This Tuesday, October 31, marks the five hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation – the day Luther is said to have nailed his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg. It also marks Halloween, All Hallows…
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final part of a three-part review. To read the entire series, please see parts one and two. Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley, eds. Theology, Aesthetics, & Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Oxford:…