Sublime

I adopt Hunter’s “faithfully present within” culture approach, augmented by Andy Crouch’s insight that Christians are called to be creators and cultivators of the good, true, and beautiful. Alternative accounts of cultural apologetics could be developed that explicitly endorse one or another of Niebuhr’s possible positions on Christ and culture.

Artists are instinctively uncomfortable in homogeneous groups, and in “border-stalking” we have a role that both addresses the reality of fragmentation and offers a fitting means to help people from all our many and divided cultural tribes learn to appreciate the margins, lower barriers to understanding and communication, and start to defuse the cu

My working definition of art is thus derived in part from both a moderate institutional theory that recognizes the important role that the museum space plays in determining meaning and mediating a history, tradition, and theory of what occurs in that space, and an ecological theory of art that affirms that in its making and viewing, art does someth

The referent of the creative endeavor (i.e., the purpose of art), even for the power-hungry Medici, was not bound in the uniqueness of the self of the artist but the reflection of God’s own beauty in the painting, sculpture, or architecture (see particularly Lorenzo de’ Medici’s patronage of Sandro Botticelli for an example). Art was never intended