Robert Covolo, Fashion Theology. Baylor University Press, 2020, 200 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). In an article published by Transpositions in 2010, Robert Covolo (Ph. D. VU Amsterdam / Ph. D. Fuller Theological Seminary) put forth the still-relevant observation that theologians—and Christians…
Jack R. Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro, and Daniel Train, eds. ‘The Saint John’s Bible’ and Its Tradition: Illuminating Beauty in the Twenty-First Century. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018. 198 pp. $25 paperback. The creation of The Saint John’s Bible was a remarkable project…
AN EASTER GREETING TO EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES ‘ALICE’ [1] DEAR CHILD, Please to fancy, if you can, that you are reading a real letter, from a real friend whom you have seen, and whose voice you can seem to…
‘Sometimes we can get lost living in the here and now Sometimes it takes the sky to see what’s on the ground’ –Ben Rector, ‘30,000 Feet’ [1] For those individuals born during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the possibility…
James McCullough. Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation. Wipf and Stock, 2015. 146pp, B ISBN: 9781625649218. $20. It is a pleasure to be reviewing the first monograph by an author with manifold connections to the Institute for Theology,…
Biblical background: In recent decades, performance art has considered how intangible experiences, such as fasting and other acts of endurance, may be viewed as artworks. This is seen, for example, in Joseph Beuys’ I like America and America likes me,…
Douglas Christie. The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 488pp., $31.95 Douglas Christie’s The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology is a lyrical synthesis of naturalism, theology, poetry, and…
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a four-part series by Jim McCullough that will look at the ways in which art contributes to faith Theological aesthetics as a discipline seeks to uncover and scrutinize the connections between…
‘After I released my catch, Mr. Herzer and I paused for a moment to appreciate our good fortune. In less than five minutes, we had landed a fish of almost startling beauty in a setting no less lovely. I am…