Category What Good Are The Arts?

An Interview with Professor Trevor Hart

Editor’s Note:  We are pleased to present a Q&A with ITIA Co-Founder Prof. Trevor Hart.  In this interview, Hart discusses the beginnings of ITIA and its subsequent contributions, the importance of imagination for theology, as well as his own future…

The View From 14A: The Arts and the Importance of Time

‘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…

Review: Sense and Spirituality

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,…

Chapter Five: Can art be a religion?

Review of Chapter 5 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey.  Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. In the fifth chapter of his book, Carey evaluates the…

Chapter Three: Can Science Help?

Review of Chapter 3 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey.  Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. As we have seen from James McCullough’s post and Sara…