God’s Back: Jackson Pollock and the Beatific Vision
It would be difficult to read Jackson Pollock’s so-called drip paintings as the product of theological intent. Judging by their titles, which range from…
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Review: Modern Art and the Life of a Culture
Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness. Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP…
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The Art of Reflection: Thoughts on Advent and New Year
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart –Luke 2:19 The emergence of an ending can often usher in…
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The Phenomenological Character of Aesthetic Experience
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of a four-part series by Jim McCullough that will look at the ways in which art contributes to…
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Review: Sense and Spirituality
James McCullough. Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation. Wipf and Stock, 2015. 146pp, B/W. ISBN: 9781625649218. $20. It is a pleasure to…
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The Ethical Dimension of Aesthetic Experience
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a four-part series by Jim McCullough that will look at the ways in which art contributes…
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The Scandal of God Incarnate
When Max Ernst first displayed The Blessed Virgin Chastising the Infant Jesus in 1926, the citizens of Cologne were aghast. The public outcry was…
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Review: The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy
Paroma Chatterjee. The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy: The Vita Image, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 297pp. 34 B/W, 16…
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Summer Garden: Alfonse Borysewicz, Artist in Residence
At my fidgety age I am less and less inclined towards spontaneity. I admit my guilt, though it may not be my fault. Ventures out…
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