"If God is sovereign, then his lordship must extend over all of life, and it cannot be restricted to the walls of the church or within the Christian orbit." Abraham Kuyper Common Grace 1.1.
Wednesday 30 March 2011
Sunday 20 March 2011
The Wilderness and the Desert of the Real - Geoff Hall
Part 1 of 4 in Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape
Geoff Hall
Upptackka Press
ISBN 978-0-9568034-0-5
pbk, 59pp, £
What is Christian art? How does spirituality and art relate? What does it mean to be a Christian artist?
Is it more than painting biblical scenes or painting a sheep in each picture? Geoff Hall maintains that it is more than that. In this, the first of four books, he looks at the calling of the Christian artist. A calling that involves desert and wilderness: 'between the Call and its realisation, comes The Wilderness!' p. 14. In the wilderness God can create a depth of character and experience that will help shape the artists work - and hopefully move beyond painting sheep in the picture!
Hall is not advocating an interaction of art and spirituality, an icing of spirituality on the cake of art he is seeking a robust integration of spirituality and art, of art and spirituality. Neither is he wanting an art through theology approach, as he rightly observes 'art is not theology' (p 33).
This is a great brief book; it can be read in less than an hour but will take hours to digest and meditate on the wisdom and insight it contains.
Contents
Introduction 10
Cast of Characters 13
Direction through a Weary Land 17
At Work in the Digital Babel 21
The Desert of the Real 25
Synthetic Spirituality 31
Notebook 34
Also in this series 52
About the author 54
Arts Mentoring Group
Upptacka
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Tuesday 15 March 2011
Sunday 13 March 2011
Saturday 12 March 2011
Monday 7 March 2011
Odds and sods
2K or not-2K [HT Gregory Baus via google reader] - argues that VanDrunen's 'clarification .. only serves to reinforce the problem'
Newbigin study guides - courtesy of Tony Stiff
Paul Copan on his recent interaction with Richard Dawkins
Tell publishers why you didn't buy a book
How to discuss Rob Bell without killing each other
Newbigin study guides - courtesy of Tony Stiff
Paul Copan on his recent interaction with Richard Dawkins
Tell publishers why you didn't buy a book
How to discuss Rob Bell without killing each other
Sunday 6 March 2011
Reformed academic reviews of Calvin and culture - update
Reformed Academic are posting a series of reviews of each the chapters of David W. Hall and Marvin Padgett, Calvin and Culture: Exploring a Worldview (P&R, 2010). I mentioned this before - but it's such a great series it's worth mentioning again, particularly as two more chapter reviews have been posted:Chapter 1 History
Chapter 2 Law
Chapter 3 Art
Chapter 4 Economics
Chapter 5 Literature
Chapter 6 Philosophy
Chapter 7 Politics
Chapter 8 Science