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Category Archives: Art
The Beautiful Gospel
*Posted by Winston Hottman They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But is that true? Check out our podcast, Beauty and Excellence, as Criswell College’s resident philosophers, Drs. Creamer and Wooddell, discuss the objectivity of beauty and how … Continue reading
To Watch or Not to Watch: Evaluating Movies from a Christian Perspective, Part 1
*Guest post by Scott Shiffer. Scott serves as Director of Distance Education at Criswell College and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the B. H. Carroll Theological Institute. **The original version of this article was posted at The Pop-Culture and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Film, Theology
Tagged art, escapism, film, Francis Schaeffer, Jeffrey Overstreet, movies
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Borrowed Beauty
*Posted by Kirk Spencer Recently I heard something about the college football championship. It wasn’t anything about the game itself, but about one of the player’s girlfriend. Evidently a football commentator made some shockingly inappropriate and controversial statement about her … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Philosophy, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged art, asthetics, beauty, borrowed beauty
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Why Church Architecture Matters
It’s not the outside that matters. It’s what is on the inside. Right? How important, then, are church buildings? In an article entitled Buildings Matter Because Bodies Matter, Matt Anderson discusses the importance of architecture in the life of the … Continue reading
Art in Eight Dimensions
*Posted by Kirk Spencer My granddad loved museums. He always took me to them when I was a kid. A few years before he died, we were together, like old times, wandering through the Baytown Historical Museum. The building itself … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture
Tagged art, Christian art, Christianity and art, dance, history, living art, music, painting, sculpture
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Reality Check
*Posted by Kirk Spencer My wife found “The Queen” in the $5 movie bins at the drug store. Watching it was difficult for me because I’m getting so old I remember living through the historical events of historical movies. It … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Christian Spirituality, Culture, Language, Philosophy
Tagged free agency, free will, loss, reality, self, sovereignty, truth
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Our Common Latin Poem
*Posted by Kirk Spencer When I was young (or at least younger) and impetuous (meaning stupid), I agreed to be a part of what we might call a “flash mob” today. Then it was just a matter of some of … Continue reading
The Objectivity of Beauty
*Posted by Joe Wooddell Each fall I try to learn one or two more Christmas songs on the piano. This year it’s “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” in E minor, and I’ve almost got it down. While practicing yesterday I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Philosophy
Tagged agnosticism, atheism, beauty, creation, creationism, theism
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LAMO: The Forever Always Never Just “Now”
*Posted by Kirk Spencer The via antiqua (ancient way) looked back to Eden and the via moderna (modern way) looks forward to Utopia. To the Ancients, “old” was good—tested, tried and approved. To the Moderns, “old” is bad—out of date, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Language, Philosophy
Tagged enlightenment, modernity, postmodern, postmodernity, utopia
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What is the “Imago Dei?”
*Posted by Andrew Hebert. Originally posted at lookslikereign.com. “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and … Continue reading
