Over the course of the past four months I’ve been addressing “The Integrity of Using Art.” In this, my fourth and final post in the series (cf. Parts 1, 2 and 3), I’d like to return to a comment made by Jim Watkins in…
Stephen N. Fliegel, A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State State University Press, 2012, 136 pp., £36.50 cloth. Alexander Nagel, The Controversy of Renaissance Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 376 pp., £45.50 cloth. The…
The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln (or, to most, simply Lincoln Cathedral), with its once-towering Gothic spires and pale stone, will soon have a new Marian chapel with a sculpture of Our Lady as its centerpiece. …
Editor’s Note: This is the first post in our new Visiting Scholars series, a series intended to draw students and faculty from other theology/arts programs including Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts, the Brehm Center of Fuller Theological Seminary,…
Sacred Art: A Spiritual Affair? a conference organised by Arts & Spirituality Ireland 19 October 2013 | Dublin, Ireland Please email ASI to register. Arts & Spirituality Ireland (ASI) will present a one day conference, ‘Sacred Art: A Spiritual Affair?’…
Today I will begin a three-part series examining the theologies and theories of two 20th-century Polish theatre companies, Karol Wojtyła and Mieczysław Kotlarczyk’s Rhapsodic Theatre and Jerzy Grotowski’s Laboratory Theatre. Today’s post introduces the theological underpinnings of the Rhapsodic Theatre. In my…
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series on the relationship between the artist and the church. The second post will run on 23 October followed by the final post on 30 October. Church buildings are seldom static.…
“The taste for the useful predominates over the love of the beautiful in the heart of man,” writes Alexis de Tocqueville at the opening of his description of the American artist in Democracy in America [1], an observation buttressed by…
Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a three-part review. Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley, eds. Theology, Aesthetics, & Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 313 pp., £68.00 cloth. In September 2010, after completing…