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Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
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In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but…
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Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a…
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It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its…
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Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to…
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Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
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Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at…
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Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art…
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Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married…
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The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…
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As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,…
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Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has…
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Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
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Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star…
— Henry Rollins
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Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do…
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There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune…
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American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a…
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I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange.…
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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the…
— Ron Chernow
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose…
— Blaise Cendrars
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