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​ONLINE EDITION: ARTS (vol. 31, no. 1)

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
by​ Kimberly Vrudny
IN POETRY
IN THE SANCTUARY
Warming Hearts and Moving Minds: A Wesleyan Contribution to Theology and the Arts
by Jacquelynn Price-Linnartz
Jacquelynn Price-Linnartz holds a Doctor of Theology from Duke Divinity School. She explores the intersections of theology, the arts, and ethics as both a scholar and an artist.
IN THE TEMPLE
Standing on Moonstones: The Art of Dwelling Between​
by ​Mary Lane Potter
Mary Lane Potter, Ph.D., MFA, is the author of the novel A Woman of Salt (Counterpoint Press), Strangers and Sojourners: Stories from the Lowcountry (Counterpoint Press), and the memoir Seeking God and Losing the Way, as well as books and essays on feminist and liberation theologies. She’s been awarded writing residencies at MacDowell, Hedgebrook, and Caldera, as well as a Washington State Arts Commission/Artist Trust Fellowship. Her website is: http://members.authorsguild.net/marylapotter/.
IN THE STUDY
Sculpting the Unseen: Rachel Whiteread's Incomprehensible Art
​by James Romaine
Dr. James Romaine is an associate professor of art history at Lander University. He is the cofounder of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA). He is a frequent lecturer on faith and the visual arts. His books include Art as Spiritual Perception: Essays in Honor of E. John Walford (Crossway), ReVisioning: Methodological Studies of Christianity in the History of Art (Cascade), and Behold: Christ and Christianity in African American Art (Penn State University Press). Video essays by Dr. Romaine can be viewed at Seeing Art History on YouTube.
ON THE STREET
"What You Gaze Upon, You Become": The Iconography of William Hart McNichols​
by Christopher Pramuk​
Christopher Pramuk is the University Chair of Ignatian Thought and Imagination and an associate professor of theology at Regis University in Denver. His most recent book, The Artist Alive: Explorations in Music, Art and Theology, engages classic works in contemporary music, film, literature, poetry, and religious iconography, as loci of spiritual and theological reflection. A longtime student and scholar of the life and writings of Thomas Merton, he currently serves as Vice President of the International Thomas Merton Society.
IN REVIEW
Performing the Gospel: Exploring the Borderland of Worship, Entertainment, and the Arts by Deborah Sokolove​
reviewed by Timothy Carson
Timothy Carson is a retired parish pastor, the author of Transforming Worship, Your Calling as a Christian; Liminal Reality and Transformational Power; and the editor of Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality. He is the curator of TheLiminalityProject.org and teaches a Liminality Seminar in the Honors College of the University of Missouri.
ON THE SHELF
Three New Titles in Theology and the Arts​
by Mark McInroy
In every issue, book review editor Mark McInroy supplies notes on books recently released in theology and the arts. He is an associate professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Thomas, and has published academic examinations of Origen of Alexandria, Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. He is the author of Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving Splendour (Oxford University Press, 2014), and was a 2015 recipient of the prestigious Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise.