Beauty And The Sacred

Philip Sherrard on holiness and perception; Ross Douthat on what liberal Catholics get right; and, Hologram Baby Jesus in Bethlehem

Mar 20, 2023

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Resurrection icon, by Ivanka Demchuk (order her work from her website here)

I’ve spent much of this past weekend flat on my back — recurring lower back pain, oy — but communing with an extraordinary book: The Sacred In Life And Art, by the Orthodox writer Philip Sherrard (d. 1995). I’m drawing on it for the chapter in my re-enchantment book on Beauty. Th…

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