Marcus Coates: A Quest for Visions – Contemporary Art & the Church
One of the most intriguing individuals at work in the art world today is Marcus Coates, a curiously atavistic figure, part-shaman, part-performance artist, whose…
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Meta-Review: The Hunger Games
We loved Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games (THG). While the movie is okay, we think the books are great. So, when we set…
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Upon Double Reflection
Sitting in Haché Gourmet Burgers restaurant last night in Copenhagen, I found myself gazing into an enormous wall-covering mirror and seeing the world around…
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The Dandy Imago Dei: Toward an Incarnational Aesthetics in Kierkegaard
Oscar Wilde once declared that he only put his talent into his works; his true genius, he insisted, had been reserved for his life….
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Art & Prudence: Jacques Maritain on the Responsibility of the Artist
In a 1976 article in Artforum magazine, critic Robert Horvitz asks: ‘To what extent, if any, and under what conditions, does morality have a…
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Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part II)
In Part I, I suggested that words like ‘create,’ ‘creation’ and ‘creativity’ are dead metaphors because a robust theology of creation is no longer ‘mapped…
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Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part I)
We are living in a time when many clergy and lay professionals are calling upon Christians to be creative. This quote from Andy Crouch’s…
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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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We Can Do Better: A Reply to John Starke
You may have noticed that The Gospel Coalition has recently produced videos and blog posts that explore the relationship between Christianity and the arts….
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