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This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series”Cheap Thrills: Pop Art and Transcendence”

Kaplan disputes the idea that popular art provides relief from boredom. In one very real sense, it perpetuates it.

The key difference between serious or useful art and popular art is that popular art provides an emotional experience without perspective. [...]

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series”The Building Blocks of Worship”

Last week I suggested that the establishment of the Jewish sacrificial system, tabernacle, and priesthood was a codification of worship elements that had been instituted in the Creation/Fall events.

However, what the tabernacle also reveals is that these essential worship elements [...]

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series”Cheap Thrills: Pop Art and Transcendence”

You can recognize popular art not only through its form (or formlessness), but through the feelings it evokes, according to Kaplan. He disagrees with the common objection that popular art is mere entertainment. All art, Kaplan argues, has intrinsic interest [...]

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series”The Building Blocks of Worship”

In this series I have suggested that the building blocks of worship were established in the first few chapters of Genesis. To review, those building blocks are as follows: (1) God reveals himself and initiates a relationship with his people; (2) God [...]

This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series”Cheap Thrills: Pop Art and Transcendence”

Kaplan argues that popular art is formless. It does not possess form in the truest sense. Form in good art, is precisely what invites true participation, creative perception, and diligent interpretation. Good form places demands on us. Its form even [...]

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series”The Building Blocks of Worship”

Last week I suggested that the basic building blocks of worship worship established in the creation/fall events: (1) God reveals himself and initiates a relationship with his people; (2) God forms the boundaries of the [...]