Finding Beauty through the Practice of Creating: An Artist’s Reflection
I am a painter, designer, curator and creative strategist living and working in Philadelphia who trained in painting and design at The University of…
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Engaging Contemporary Culture with the Beauty of Jesus
Even if beauty is hard to define and difficult to pinpoint, most people in contemporary culture seem compelled to engage with beauty in some…
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Jeremy Begbie on Beauty
Amid the expanding bustle between theology and the arts, the topic of beauty seems to be ever more attractive. Among theologians it is proving…
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Introducing a Symposium on Beauty
The concept of beauty in relation to theology and the arts is a slippery one. While sometimes a definition eludes, at other times it…
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Our Lady of Breezy Point
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, one image in particular has drawn attention: the Breezy Point Madonna. This stone lawn statue of the Virgin…
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Films about Art: Waste Land (2010)
This post is Part II in a series highlighting some insightful documentary films from the past decade on art and artmaking. [Read Part I…
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Beauty as Love: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics
According to Hans Urs von Balthasar, in The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, vol. 1, Seeing the Form, if theological aesthetics is…
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Review: Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Review of Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 186 pages. Beauty is a significant philosophical category for the study…
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Further up and Farther in
As a philosopher of religion, I spend most of my professional writing time considering the theological significance of pain and suffering. As a human…
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