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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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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

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Philosophical Writing as an Artform

I recommend Ralph McInerny’s very short Rhyme and Reason: St. Thomas and Modes of Discourse. It’s the Marquette University Aquinas Lecture for 1981. I’m thinking about it today in relation to literary criticism (a field in which I am less […]

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Response to Selby

A few thoughts in response to Andrew: Remember that a large percent of college students are at public institutions. (Does anyone know whether a majority are?) Although these schoos still have tuition, costs are highly subsidized by the government. Furthermore, […]