Mystery, Manners, and the Mind of the Maker by Paul Erlandson
Christian art represents the mysteries of God and creation, according to authors Dorothy Sayers and Flannery O'Connor
It would be an exaggeration, but not much of one, to say that everything I know about Christian Art was taught me by two women. The women, both certainly among our century's canonized fiction-writers, taught me their wisdom not only through their fiction directly, but through their essays. [Read on]
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