John Walford Quotes

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• Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
• In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the whole…
• Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of…
• It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in…
• Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a…
• Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
• Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There…
• Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on…
• Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or,…
• The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that…
• As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely…
• Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster…
• In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in…
• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical…
• Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.
• Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be thought…
• Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived in…

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