Blog For Ash Wednesday: On Clean Pain It’s Ash Wednesday, a time of repentance, and I’m put in mind of an artist…Katie KresserFebruary 17, 2021
Blog Bodies, Beauty and Time: On Michelangelo Contemporary culture is obsessed with the human body. It (that is, the body) carries so…Katie KresserFebruary 10, 2021
Blog Luxuriant (at Christmastime) In gray Seattle, it’s easy to feel a sense of mystery as you walk the…Katie KresserDecember 21, 2020
Blog More Than (Art and Orthodoxy) In the early centuries after Christ, myriad heresies peeled free of the doctrinal core, curling…Katie KresserDecember 7, 2020
Blog On The Holy, In Autumn Recently, I visited a Japanese garden with my students. It was a good way to…Katie KresserNovember 9, 2020
Blog On Museums and Monsters: Defining Art What is art? I have my students answer this question every autumn, and every autumn…Katie KresserOctober 12, 2020
Blog Teaching Culture in Covidtide A new school year is beginning, and I’m thinking about how to teach cultural history. There…Katie KresserSeptember 2, 2020
Review Essays Art and Theology—A Review Essay Katie Kresser is Associate Professor of Art History at Seattle Pacific University. This essay treats…Katie KresserOctober 15, 2013
Reviews Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art. Reviewed by Katie Kresser, Department of Art, Seattle Pacific University The title Earthly Visions: Theology…Katie KresserJuly 15, 2012
Reviews Space, Time and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with the Eyes of God A significant disadvantage attending the hyper-specialized, professionalized nature of so much academic production today is…Katie KresserJuly 15, 2011
Reviews The Sacred Body: Asceticism in Religion, Literature, Art and Culture The title of David Jasper ’s new book, The Sacred Body: Asceticism in Religion, Literature,…Katie KresserApril 15, 2010