‘Hey Teo—play some of that back’, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis comments on the delicate tune ‘Thisness’. [1] A previously unreleased track until its inclusion in a ’90s compilation, ‘Thisness’ is spacious, mellow, and stop-and-go; Davis’s lines use the space of…
Gisela Kreglinger. The Spirituality of Wine. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 2016. 300 pages. $24.00. Gisela Kreglinger’s The Spirituality of Wine is as rife with careful research as it is with food for thought.[1] The book’s main claim can be…
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of a four-part series by Jim McCullough that will look at the ways in which art contributes to faith. Please be sure to read parts one and two. How does phenomenology illuminate the…
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening. People writing songs that voices never share. And no one dared, Disturb the sound of silence. –Simon & Garfunkel, “The…
Augustine occupies a unique place in the history of theological aesthetics. In a sense, the whole of Western theological aesthetics is couched in Augustine’s complex struggle to understand how the things of the body (sensuality, art, imagination, etc.) should be…