Conclusion: Personhood, Not Propoganda
The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part X Conclusion: Personhood, Not Propoganda Having reinterpreted fashion as an incarnational art form and modesty as a sort of aesthetic and moral check on that...
Look Good and Sin Not
The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part IX – Look Good and Sin Not How does one take the body-imaging activity of clothing into consideration when choosing clothes to wear? A wise...
What’s So Bad About Immodesty?
The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part VIII – What’s So Bad About Immodesty? This incarnational approach can now be applied to the second problem of fashion, that of modesty. If...
Nature and the Aim of Fiction
The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part VII – Nature and the Aim of Fiction Here we may turn to another great Christian theorist, Ms. Flannery O’Connor. In her excellent essay...
Towards an Incarnational Aesthetic
The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part VI – Towards a Christian Aesthetic Now that this first principle of Christian aesthetics has been reached, it will be helpful to turn to...
Solving the Three Aesthetic Problems
The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part V – Solving the Three Problems While it may be possible to tackle these three contemporary problems individually, I believe that the first problem...
Relativism, Immodesty, Evangelism
The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part IV – Relativism, Modesty, Evangelism It is here that contemporary Christians bring a unique and needed element into the cultural climate, for we ask...
The Three Aesthetic Problems
The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical Understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part III – The Three Aesthetic Problems How can the Bible inform our understanding of fashion today? Surely the runways of Milan are a different...
A Brief History of Clothing
The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part II – A Brief History of Clothing The wool dress I saw at Biola began to work on my mind. The idea of such...
The Sword and the Shaving Brush – Towards a Biblical Understanding of Fashion
The Sword and the Shaving Brush, Part I Towards a Christian understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part I It was a dress made out of wool—not finely spun wool, not the wool of your favorite sweater, but wool in...