Monthly Archives: January 2008
Beauty
What is “beauty’s” primary referent? What exists that gives us the notion of beauty? Where does the very idea begin? How important is beauty? What is its nature and meaning? How do we account for its pervasive presence in experience? … Continue reading
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The Ideal and the Real
Got home Saturday night and rose early Sunday morning to finalize preparation for the morning sermon. The story of Simeon reminded me of the constant tension between the idealism of salvation’s arrival and the realism of the suffering Jesus’ coming … Continue reading
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Jacob’s Dream
8:oo o’clock here and my hands are having a hard time typing. I was just outside in 38 degree weather for the past hour hanging around for the sunrise. I wanted to see Jack Maxwell’s major sculptural piece, “Jacob’s Ladder” … Continue reading
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Day Four
Incarnation. To enflesh. That was the topic that carried us through the morning, looking at Jesus as “form” to God’s “content”, seeing in the action of the incarnation the essential move the artist must make. Abstraction is a beginning, but … Continue reading
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Day Three
Yesterday was another envigorating day of discussion. We talked about the implications of God’s creation for artists and audiences–what we would understand of God simply by observing His creation and how that understanding might guide and inform our own work, … Continue reading
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