A Theological Prolegomenon to Art and Poverty
byParker Haratine’s powerful article explains how art can draw our attention to ‘fallenness and finitude’, revealing the ‘experience and reality of poverty’, for the…
Ethics
Producing the Proper Produce: Theology as Play
byHere’s a thought experiment. In improvisational theatre there is a game used to generate ideas and sometimes to warm up performers called ‘Word Association’. …
Creativity as a Call to Virtue?
bySooner or later, the writer of creative fiction seems bound to ask just how free are my characters? Good writers strive to make their…
Reviews: The Fall of Interpretation and Imagining the Kingdom
byJames K.A. Smith, The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012, xviii + 229pp., £14.99/$24.99 paper….
Can good design save the economy? A Response
byThose who watched the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics were presented with a visual display of what British art, design, and music…
Risk to Life: The Ethics of Chris Burden’s ‘Shoot’
byIn this post, part two of a series on morality in art, we will move on to another of critic Robert Horvitz’ questions in…
Art & Prudence: Jacques Maritain on the Responsibility of the Artist
byIn a 1976 article in Artforum magazine, critic Robert Horvitz asks: ‘To what extent, if any, and under what conditions, does morality have a…