Beauty comes from God. The most beautiful thing you have ever seen is beautiful because it reflects God. The most hideous thing you have ever seen is hideous because it distorts God’s nature. Part of our task in the Great Commission, connected to the Cultural Commission, is to create beauty.
This is post 2 of 4 in the series “Call of the Balladeers Workshop” Christian Artists Can Glorify God and Bless the World Where Does the Impulse for Art Come From? Does More Volume Make Better Music? Tolkien on What is Good Art Krzysztof Mizera creates art in a stained-glass
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Teaching them to obey” Emancipating the World Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: Kingdom Culture Goodness is Good for People and Nations The laws of creation relate to what I call the “cultural trinity”— truth, goodness, and beauty. These elements of kingdom culture
Every Christmas, family tradition dictates that I travel up country to celebrate the festivities. One thing I love about long drives up country is the scenery along the way. My favorite stop is the Great Rift Valley. The landscape of the expansive rift extending thousands of kilometers in either direction
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Arts in Postmodern Society” The Arts In A Postmodern Society The Arts in a Postmodern Society, part 2 A human life is incomplete without the arts. If the “unexamined life is not worth living” as the ancient Greeks said, in the
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Arts in Postmodern Society” The Arts In A Postmodern Society The Arts in a Postmodern Society, part 2 How should Christians use the arts to proclaim the gospel? In the past, Europe enthroned reason. Seeing the terrible and devastating consequences, the
Is art to lead us in the pursuit of truth, goodness and and the beautiful? The culture of the kingdom of God is marked by Truth, Beauty and Goodness, the cultural trinity. (We have written about this here.) The West was built upon the pursuit of this trinity, born out
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “perichoresis” Perichoresis: Great Dance of God and Creation The Great Dance of God and Creation, part 2 How does the life of the Trinity and the image of the Great Dance help us understand the matter of form and freedom? Freedom
Truth, beauty and goodness are the hallmarks of the culture of the kingdom of God. These are what I call the cultural trinity. Just as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are separate persons yet one God, so truth, beauty and goodness are not the same, but they cannot be
This is post 2 of 3 in the series “Ana's invisible women” Trafficking: Hideous Fruit of a Global Lie The Indestructible Value of a Woman Men, We Owe Honor to Our Women This is the second of a three-part series dedicated to my good friend Ana who works tirelessly to
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