Review: Culture Care
Makoto Fujimura, Peter Edman (Editor), Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for our Common Life, International Arts Movement and the Fujimura Institute, 2015, 124. pps.,…
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The Most Beautiful Thing: Racial Reconciliation and the Credibility of the Gospel
On December 18, 1963, while visiting the campus of Western Michigan University, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke these famous words: “We…
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Bowing Toward Beauty
One of the more subtle assumptions being made today within theology is the belief that anyone who lacks an appreciation for beauty must be in…
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The Imagination between Beauty and Goodness
In Visual Faith, William Dyrness entertains two questions concerning the uncomfortable, and at times awkward, relationship between beauty and goodness. The first: “Do pursuits…
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Visiting Scholars Series: Sanctifying Perception – Idols, Icons, and Dark Flesh
A little girl wants lighter skin. She stares at the back of her hand and says, “I just don’t like the way brown looks,…
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Cultivating Ears to Hear Beauty’s Call
Attending St. Andrews, I found myself one of the few defenders of natural theology, surrounded by a chorus of (very polite) Barthian “Neins!” It…
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“The Senses Are Not Content to Take Second Place”: Body, Art and Temptation in Augustine’s Confessions
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…
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Reviews: Theological Aesthetics, Bridge to Wonder, and Arts of Wonder
Richard Viladesau. Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, xi + 294 pp. £17.99/$27.95 paper. A classic in the field,…
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Worship and Identity: The Role of Beauty in the Church
A church service may look like a gathering of very ordinary people – with all our sins and weaknesses – but that is just…
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