“Without an appreciation for grace and beauty, there’s no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them!” – Calvin No, that is not a quote from John Calvin but rather the eponymous child from Calvin and Hobbes. I want pick back up with this metaphor of languages I talked about in my last [...]
“When I look back on my own conversion, I cannot credit a gospel tract or an altar call or an exposition of John 3:16. I had encountered these things many times over in childhood and had learned to mistrust them because of the lies my church in the fundamentalist South had told me. Rather, nature, [...]
“Much could be said about the theological, ethical and social symbolism of our worship space, but here I’m speaking primarily about the importance of aesthetic beauty. Beauty in the worship space is not intended merely to give pleasure to the congregant. It is there for the glorification and praise of the divine. If, as theologians [...]
This is the most rough draft-ish of any of the sections I’ve posted so far but it’s complete enough that I’ll post it for now. If nothing else it at least proves I’m continuing to work on my thesis! I’ve got two sections which are currently partly written and a conclusion to polish and then [...]
Robin M. Jensen writes on page 3 of her book The Substance of Things Seen, “…times have changed, and even the most staid churches are starting to incorporate art into their worship… but I worry that too often art is perceived as a kind of ‘extra’ offering, meant for those of us who can appreciate [...]
