Seeing and Savouring
At the moment I am working on a paper about theological and ecclesiological aesthesis – the way our physical and spiritual “senses” are involved in seeing, hearing, touching and tasting […]
Tag Archives: aesthetics
The Hart has reasons
I remember once trying to describe Jack Chambers’ experimental film The Hart of London to some less-than-interested conversation partners: ME (though less eloquently): “It’s one of the most striking films […]
Some life lessons from “Work of Art,” Season 2
The holiday season seems to be, in TV land, a time for marathons. I’ve particularly enjoyed, between bouts of turkey consumption and essay-writing, being able to sit back and watch […]
Art and ornithology
Here’s a video of a very interesting International Arts Movement lecture by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin on the topic of art and phenomenology. She starts (somewhere around the 2 minute mark) […]
Target practice
In a recent post, Daniel Siedell has this to say about Christian interpretation of art, which seeks to situate the work of art within the larger metanarrative of the Christian […]
Who in the world is Hans Urs von Balthasar?
If you are a semi-regular reader of my blog, you may have already asked yourself this important question! I offer this very brief summary as one “window” to his work. […]
Art, truth and “truthiness”
At the moment I am doing a directed reading course on an age-old question (a question which is also the title of an intriguing book by Herman Rapaport): is there […]
Required reading
I have a few things on the go at the moment, so can’t blog for long, but I do want to share some links: This piece by Brian McLaren responding […]
Only in dreams
Andrei Rublev’s icon of the Transfiguration A thought for the day: In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into […]
Art Church / Church Art
Something I’ve been thinking about recently is the phenomenon of art galleries popping up in churches. I don’t mean churches being converted into galleries, which is happening in some places […]
