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The Nature of the Christian Artist
The Gothic Form As A Living Tradition
The Gothic Form - A Question of Style
Preparation, Joy, and the Battle of Light and Darkness
Kipling, The Artistic Calling, and the End of Time
The Pope, The Ceiling, and Thinking Small
Love of Neighbor is Love of God
Tolerance And The Artist As Activist
The Cave You Fear To Enter
God Leads By Example
How God Guides Us
Failure, Rejection, and Conversion
How is an Artist Like a Missionary?
Understanding Hatred
Out Time of Joy
Our Time of Testing
To Be At Peace
Artists and the Church - Benedict XVI
Artists need the Church to remind them who they are and why they are here. They need the refuge of the Barq of Peter to shield them from the work of the Adversary that preys upon their ego and the wants and desires that are common to all people regardless of their vocation. Artists need the Church as much as the Church needs artists because it is in the Church that the Artists finds True Beauty and the meaning of their lives.
The Artist and the Church - Nicaea
"The composition of religious imagery is not left to the initiative of the artist, but is formed upon principles laid down by the Catholic Church and by religious tradition... The execution alone belongs to the painter, the selection and arrangement of subject belongs to the Fathers."
The above quote is often cited as an "instruction" from the Second Council of Nicaea, but this passage is not found in the dogmatic canons issued by the Council. Where does it come from and what does it mean to the contemporary Christian artist?
