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Performing the Sacred: A Review
Posted on 19/10/2010 | 4 CommentsTodd E. Johnson and Dale Savidge, Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), £12.99/$21.99, ISBN 080102952X. Looking for links and analogies between a particular artistic medium and theology can be greatly rewarding. It can... -
Word Pictures: A Review
Posted on 12/10/2010 | No CommentsBrian Godawa. Word Pictures: Knowing God through Story and Imagination. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1999. Pp. 208. $16.00/£9.99. Word Pictures is an extended reflection on the dynamic interplay between word and image understood as categories of discourse. Word refers to... -
Musical Delight in a Dark World
Posted on 08/09/2010 | 2 CommentsYou may be familiar with Sufjan Stevens from his two creative albums devoted to US states, Illinoise and Greetings from Michigan. Or you may have heard his folksy, indie rock renditions of popular holiday tunes in Songs for Christmas. But... -
What is the point of Christian arts?
Posted on 02/09/2010 | 3 CommentsThe week of 23 August, the Guardian website ran a series of responses to the question: ‘What is the point of Christian arts?’. The editor of the series starts by considering the distinction made between artists who are Christians and... -
What is “Christian Art,” and Does It Have a Slant?
Posted on 25/08/2010 | No CommentsCalvin Seerveld, professor Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, thinks Christian art does have a particular slant. In his book A Christian Critique of Art and Literature (CCAL), Seerveld defines art as “the symbolical objectification of certain... -
Food for Thought in Inception
Posted on 28/07/2010 | No CommentsInception is one of those films worth your money to see on the big screen. The filming and special effects were exhilarating, together with an equally mind-bending plot. Rather than analyze the technicalities of the film, summarise its plot, or... -
Art and Mind Games
Posted on 01/07/2010 | No CommentsOn Sunday, 20 June, the Guardian posted an article titled, ‘Why Modern Art is all in the Mind,‘ reviewing a forthcoming book titled, ‘How Pleasure Works’. The book argues that there is no such thing as pure aesthetic judgment –...
