What Makes a God?: Wormhole Aliens and Bajoran Religion
It’s no secret that Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek to be secular. In a 1991 interview in The Humanist, Roddenberry said: ‘I condemn false…
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A Thesis on the Theatrical Turn in Christian Thought and Practice [Part Two]
Wes Vander Lugt’s thesis on the ‘theatrical turn’ in Christianity concludes below. To restate his thesis in full: Christian existence is a dialogical, divine…
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The Artist as Prophet
My friend W. David O. Taylor, an arts pastor and PhD candidate in Theology and the Arts at Duke Divinity School, recently published the…
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Theology & (Theatre) Arts Round-Up
Over the past few years, I have been collecting names of people and organisations combining theology (predominantly theatre) and the arts. Generally these names…
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The Artist Begins Again and Again
Christine Valters Paintner, a Benedictine oblate and online Abbess of Abbey of the Arts, shares wisdom for artists from the Desert Fathers and the Benedictine tradition.
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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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Embodying Art: Renewing Religion?
Everything we experience has to be embodied. Or, better, every experience we have can only be perceived, received, experienced by a sentient, embodied individual….
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Encountering God Through Art: Some Issues
Often on this blog, we have talked about ways in which the arts might help us encounter God. In this, my last regular post…
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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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