In chapter 5 of For the Beauty of the Church, Barbara Nicolosi seeks to offer a look inside the mind of the artist, their concerns and troubles and to help the rest of us to identify the artists among us.…
In chapter 4 of For the Beauty of the Church, Eugene Peterson introduces us to three artists who shaped his pastoral integrity. The first artist painted a portrait of what he would look like if he let himself be swallowed…
Review of Chapter 3 in For the Beauty of the Church. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book between Aug 2 and Aug 9, 2010. In this essay, Lauren Winner considers what might be one of the…
Review of Chapter 2 in For the Beauty of the Church. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book between Aug 2 and Aug 9, 2010. John D. Witvliet’s essay examines how art should be used in the…
Review of Chapter 1 in For the Beauty of the Church. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book between Aug 2 and Aug 9, 2010. It is fitting that the first essay of this collection should offer…
Over the next week we are going to work our way slowly through the recent collection of essays edited by W. David O. Taylor entitled For the Beauty of the Church. These essays were the result of a conference held…
Christ and Pop Culture have two posts about Inception, one on imagination and the other on reality. Diary of an Arts Pastor is a great blog kept by W. David O. Taylor. And this post on useful and useless art…
Last week, in regard to my post on Christo’s land art, Jim and I began a discussion on the relationship between people and place, and how that might be explored through art (such as Christo’s land art). In particular, he…
In last week’s post, I explored some theological ideas from the first two Toy Story movies. This week I reflect on some of the numerous theological elements present in Toy Story 3. Even though I expected the film to have…