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September 2012

September 25, 2012

Luther, Evangelicals, and Modern Art

Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Wittenberg Altarpiece, 1547, Wittenberg, Germany Modern and contemporary painting is...

September 04, 2012

Velázquez, Dwarfs, and the Contradiction of Graceful Painting

The Spanish artist Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) is a contradiction. His disarming virtuosity, combined with an...

August 2012

August 07, 2012

Art and Explanation

Susan Sontag has a point. In her well-known essay, "Against Interpretation" (1966), Sontag argues that...

July 2012

July 24, 2012

Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Means—Evangelical Style

Justified by Use Lutheran theologian Oswald Bayer reminds us that in An Essay on Human...

July 13, 2012

The Red Herring of Public Decency

The Chinese government's "pixelation" of Michelangelo's marble sculpture, David-Apollo in a television story previewing an exhibition of western art at...

June 2012

June 19, 2012

Concluding Thoughts on Thomas Kinkade

Thomas Kinkade has been an easy target for art critics. But my decision to write...

June 12, 2012

Art and Grace

Andrei Tarkovsky, The Passion of Andrei Rublev (1966) Grace and Sacrament Grace is known through...

June 05, 2012

The Ear and the Eye

Makoto Fujimura, The Golden Sea, 64 x 80, mineral pigments and gold on Kumohada paper,...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

The Final Word on Thomas Kinkade

Thomas Kinkade My theological analysis of Thomas Kinkade's work ("The Dark Light of Thomas...