Review: The Founding of Aesthetics
Stefanie Buchenau, The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment: The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, viii +…
Christopher R. Brewer (PhD, St Andrews) is a Program Officer of the Templeton Religion Trust, Nassau, The Bahamas. He has edited or co-edited six volumes, including Art that Tells the Story which was named one of Hearts & Minds Best Books of 2011. He is now working on a book for Zondervan Academic provisionally titled Understanding Natural Theology, and an additional edited volume (for Routledge). His current research has mostly to do with questions at the intersection of theology, philosophy, and contemporary visual art, but also includes Anglican ecumenism.
Stefanie Buchenau, The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment: The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, viii +…
Terry Smith, What is Contemporary Art? Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, xiv + 329 pp., £17.50/$25.00, paper. Terry Smith begins: “No idea…
Sara Schumacher has written previously on “The Relationship between the Artist and the Church,” arguing that artists must resist the temptation to view themselves as…
Christopher Shields, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, xx + 710 pp., £95.00/$150.00 cloth. In his Preface, Shields notes: “The Oxford Handbook…
G. Walter Hansen and Bruce Herman. Through Your Eyes: Dialogues on the Paintings of Bruce Herman. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013, xxi + 117 pp., £32.99/$50.00…
John Marenbon, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, xi + 755 pp., £95.00/$150.00 cloth. In this Handbook, Marenbon “presents the state of…
John Webster, Kathryn Tanner and Iain Torrance, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, xi + 708 pp., £100.00, cloth, £30.00/$55.00, paper….