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"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.

Friday 20 November 2020

Fashion Theology - a brief review


 Fashion Theology

Robert Covolo

Waco Texas: Baylor University Press.


ISBN 978-1-4813-1273-8

Hbk, xiv + 200 pp


This book is a wonderful, nuanced discussion of the relationship between fashion and theology. Covolo shows that fashion is not independent of theology. Theologians have not been as silent about fashion, as has often been supposed, and their discussions go beyond accusations of fashion being trivial and being about vanity. Those discussed include Tertullian, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, Kuyper and Barth.


In these excavations of theological discourse and 


fashion theory Covolo identifies several interesting interrelations. Fashion theology is much more than fig leaves!

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