The Artist Begins Again and Again
byChristine 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.
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.
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…
Everything we experience has to be embodied. Or, better, every experience we have can only be perceived, received, experienced by a sentient, embodied individual….
Often on this blog, we have talked about ways in which the arts might help us encounter God. In this, my last regular post…
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…
You may have noticed that The Gospel Coalition has recently produced videos and blog posts that explore the relationship between Christianity and the arts….
From Christmas to the Corpus Christi, the liturgical year keeps on reminding us about how the Word of God has assumed a human nature….