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Beauty as Love: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics
Posted on 27/04/2012 | 4 CommentsAccording to Hans Urs von Balthasar, in The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, vol. 1, Seeing the Form, if theological aesthetics is about anything it is about beauty, and if beauty is about anything in particular it is... -
Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part I)
Posted on 09/04/2012 | 5 CommentsWe are living in a time when many clergy and lay professionals are calling upon Christians to be creative. This quote from Andy Crouch’s blog is an excellent example: Christians are becoming dissatisfied with the postures they adopted toward culture... -
“I’m Going to Lie to Lots of People”: Mike Daisey & Theatrical Fiction
Posted on 28/03/2012 | 8 CommentsOn January 6, 2012, the public radio show This American Life aired an excerpt from monologuist Mike Daisey‘s show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Daisey describes a trip to the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, which makes Apple products. During... -
Wounded for Our Visual Transgressions…
Posted on 06/02/2012 | 7 CommentsGood art opens the mind and emotions. It stretches one’s perspective, questions one’s beliefs, agitates apathy, and invites one to explore the mysterious. It can be, I believe, a manifestation of the sacred. Religious kitsch, on the other hand, with... -
A Nod to Gestures
Posted on 25/01/2012 | 4 CommentsWhat if we hold to a theology that understands being a Christian as being united with Christ and that, as such, God is able to reveal himself through us? Does such a thought excite or frighten? Or, would you just rather wave the whole thing away? -
Toward An Ethics of Children’s Fiction
Posted on 11/11/2011 | 3 CommentsAs parents, we all know we should be reading aloud to our children. There are countless anthologies of children’s literature that tell us what to read to children. There are also many books, like Jim Trelease’s Read Aloud Handbook, that... -
![One of my favourite pieces of writing by Dorothy L. Sayers is her 1946 letter exchange with C.S. Lewis.[1] Lewis wrote to Sayers inviting her to contribute a volume to a planned series on Anglican theology for youth, to which...](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/dorothy-l-sayers-115x115.jpg "Dorothy L. Sayers on the Contemplative Vocation of the Artist")
Dorothy L. Sayers on the Contemplative Vocation of the Artist
Posted on 26/10/2011 | 13 CommentsOne of my favourite pieces of writing by Dorothy L. Sayers is her 1946 letter exchange with C.S. Lewis.[1] Lewis wrote to Sayers inviting her to contribute a volume to a planned series on Anglican theology for youth, to which...
