Charlemagne in Chartres: Looking at Stained Glass
Light coming through a stained-glass window is one of those effects unique to the church space—we can hardly witness it anywhere else. Despite, or…
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Review: The Ecumenism of Beauty
Timothy Verdon, editor. The Ecumenism of Beauty. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2017, 128pp. $28.99 hardcover. This book brings together a collection of essays on…
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Review: Visions of Mary
Jill K. H. Geoffrion. Visions of Mary: Art, Devotion, and Beauty at Chartres Cathedral. Paraclete Press, 2017. 192 pp. Colour illlus. ISBN: 978-1-61261-894-4. £17.98…
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Review: Music, Modernity, and God
Jeremy S. Begbie. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, viii + 261 (272) pp., £35.00/$55.00 hardback. Music, Modernity,…
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Movement and Location in the Church Space: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, his paintings, and an “ambulatory imagination”
It is fitting to write a reflection on the idiosyncratic artwork of Pieter Jansz Saenredam from the peculiar comfort of Martyrs Kirk library in…
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Icon-ic Walk Amongst the Ghosts of Reform
This Tuesday, October 31, marks the five hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation – the day Luther is said to have…
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Review: Theology, Aesthetics & Culture (Part 3)
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final part of a three-part review. To read the entire series, please see parts one and two….
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