Jonathan Edwards has some fairly well-developed theories of art and aesthetics that can inform discussions of Christian aesthetics today. In particular, Edwards discussed the importance… Read More »Edwards, the imagination, music, and the sacraments
Did you see The Bible movie produced for the History Channel? I confess to you that, being fully immersed in New Testament studies for going… Read More »Bible movie reflections
Yes, I mean it. You need to read this book. Not only that, you need to read it in a particular way, which is, out… Read More »Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Many of the pastors I have met are unwitting moderns. I should know, for I am also a pastor, and a recovering modern. That is,… Read More »Imagination and Shaping the Affections
The cultivation of ordinate affection depends on several areas we have already covered in this series. A pastor determined to conserve biblical Christianity will be… Read More »More than Cognitive
What I have described in this series is nothing more than historic conservative Christianity—Christianity that aims at conserving God’s truth both doctrinally and aesthetically. It is popular… Read More »The Relationship between Cultural Conservatism and Theological Conservatism
I have suggested in this series that in order to preserve the truth in our worship, we must be concerned about how we are shaping… Read More »Transmitting Imagination to our Children
I argued in the last essay that if we intend to preserve the truth handed down to us, we must never reject tradition outright. Instead, if… Read More »The Judeo-Christian Worship Tradition
I argued in the last post that all cultural forms are built upon something that came before, and we call this “tradition.” The implication of… Read More »Culture and Tradition
I have argued thus far that successful preservation of the truth necessitates that what is preserved is the doctrinal affirmations and the proper imagination of such… Read More »Truth and Tradition
I have argued to this point that preserving the truth must include not only the preservation of right doctrine, but also the preservation of right imagination.… Read More »Truth and Worship Forms
If, as I argued in the last post, truth is more than factual correspondence—if it has an aesthetic aspect to it—then both the apprehension and the… Read More »Truth and the Moral Imagination
My argument in this series will be that conservative worship is essential to the preservation of truth for this reason: we will have preserved truth successfully… Read More »Preserving the Truth in our Worship