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Rachel Hostetter Smith

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Art as Invitation: Considering New Paradigms for Scholarship and Global Engagement through the Charis Exhibit

Until recently, art has commonly been treated as ancillary to the educational mission and intellectual discourse that are at the core of Christian higher education. Using the exhibition Charis: Boundary Crossings—Neighbors, Strangers, Family, Friends as a case study, Curator and Project Director Rachel Hostetter Smith argues that art has a distinct capacity to serve as…
Rachel Hostetter Smith
July 15, 2013
Reviews

The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic

The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue by Mark Noll and James Turner, edited and with an introductory essay by Thomas A. Howard, was born out of a lecture series at Gordon College. Howard situates the conversation optimistically within a developing rapprochement between Evangelicals and Catholics. Past Protestant-Catholic hostilities took place against…
Philip D. Byers, Mark Cosgrove, Polly Graham, Mark L. Rippetoe, Michael G. Smith and Rachel Hostetter Smith
October 15, 2009
Review Essays

The Trouble With Mary? Considering the Person and Place of Mary in Christian Theology and Personal Devotion

Introduction In a recent article in SEEN, the journal of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA), Beverly Roberts Gaventa poses the question, why bother with Mary? With this simple question, Gaventa identifies the attitude harbored by many Protestant Christians today. For some, however, this casual disregard moves to the level of uneasy suspicion and apprehension…
Rachel Hostetter Smith
April 15, 2008