There's a conference taking place here in St Andrews over the first part of next week, hosted by ITIA (Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts).

It's called The Offence of Beauty: What can a theological perspective on beauty offer to the arts today? Not exactly my area, but I'm in to both offence and beauty, and some of the sessions look pretty good. I'll go along if I can swing it, and you should too if you're in the area. (Sorry that you're not, DW, as I'm sure you'd strike up at least three energizing conversations.) Keynote speakers will be:

Trevor Hart – 'Ugly as Sin? Beauty, Holiness and the Crucified'

Nicholas Wolterstorff – 'The Troubled Relationship of Art with Beauty'

Carol Harrison – 'Kind of Blue: Beauty and Broken Images'

Patrick Sherry – 'The Holy Spirit and Beauty'

Bernard Beatty – 'Beauty and the Opening of Distance: Defending the
Two-Dimensional'

Robert Jenson – 'Deus Est Ipsa Pulchritudo'

Inside scoop: One postgrad here giving a short paper may not make it because his wife might be in labor at this very moment.

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