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The Dandy Imago Dei: Toward an Incarnational Aesthetics in Kierkegaard
Posted on 08/10/2012 | 3 CommentsOscar Wilde once declared that he only put his talent into his works; his true genius, he insisted, had been reserved for his life. Foppish, brilliant, gleefully self-caricaturing (not even Bunthorne, Gilbert and Sullivan’s attempt at parody, could come close... -
Reimagining the Function of Bioethics: Participating with Wisdom in the Story of Human Flourishing
Posted on 03/10/2012 | No CommentsThere might not be any better way to describe Sophia than by articulating how the pursuit of, and encounter with, wisdom in thought and culture radically shaped the very ethos of a Nation State. Nicholas Berdyaev, the Russian Philosopher, wrote... -
The Sign of the Cross: Participatory Aesthetics
Posted on 02/10/2012 | No CommentsDr. Holly Ordway is Chair of the Department of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, and is the author of Not God’s Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith. Her blog is Hieropraxis.com. Perhaps the most clearly aesthetic aspects of the... -
Censer, Crucifix, Candlestick: The Icon Trinity in the Mass
Posted on 01/10/2012 | 4 CommentsPopular history in Protestant circles has often reimagined the medieval church as suffering from severe illiteracy in lay Christians. Images of Bibles chained to lecterns come to mind and the rally cry of sola scriptura takes on as much a visual... -
Introduction to Aesthetics and Liturgy Symposium
Posted on 28/09/2012 | 1 CommentNext week will see Transpositions host a symposium on Aesthetics and Liturgy, curated by Anna Blanch and Preston Yancey. Most broadly, liturgy can be defined as a pattern for worship. Though one can engage in a liturgy alone, it is... -
Art & Prudence: Jacques Maritain on the Responsibility of the Artist
Posted on 26/09/2012 | 2 CommentsIn a 1976 article in Artforum magazine, critic Robert Horvitz asks: ‘To what extent, if any, and under what conditions, does morality have a higher claim on our actions and reactions than aesthetics?’[1] I will start off a series looking... -
![In Engaging Art Prize: A Storied Theology of the Arts [Part Two], I suggested that a rightly Storied theology of the arts, one that acknowledges art as created good and redemptive word, maintains the tension between the uselessness and usefulness of art. Besides...](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Siedell-115x115.jpg "A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Means–Evangelical Style”")
A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Means–Evangelical Style”
Posted on 24/09/2012 | 4 CommentsIn Engaging Art Prize: A Storied Theology of the Arts [Part Two], I suggested that a rightly Storied theology of the arts, one that acknowledges art as created good and redemptive word, maintains the tension between the uselessness and usefulness of art. Besides...
