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Art

  • The Symbolic Content of Rembrandt's Holy Family, by Dr Caroline Farey of the Maryvale Institute
  • Is There a Place for Modern Art in our Churches?
  • Make the form conform – How the form of art reflects truth
  • The Way of Beauty
  • How the form of the iconographic tradition relates to the Catholic worldview
  • The Principles of a Traditional Art Education for Today
  • The Seventh Ecumenical Council and St Theodore the Studite on Holy Icons
  • Aristotle, St Thomas, and St Francis — How the Gothic Style Developed
  • Fra Angelico's Theology of Light
  • Baroque Sacred Art Exemplified
  • Fra Angelico and the Gothic
  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and the Immaculate Conception

Using the Way of Beauty in Business and Education

  • Using the Principles of the Liturgy and Beauty in Retail
  • The Liturgy and Community
  • Reviving Growth: A God-Centered Model
  • Art, Grace, Education and the Beautiful Business

Prayer, Inspiration and Creativity

  • The Beauty of the Trinity
  • How to Make and Icon Corner And Create a Domestic Church
  • Praying Continuously and Perfectly, with the Whole Person

Liturgy, Number and Proportion

  • The Privileged Person - Modern Astrophysics and Ancient Cosmology Point to the Fact that the Cosmos is Made to be Discovered by Man Because Man is Made for the Liturgy
  • Harmonious Proportion and Ratio
  • Sacred Number in the Christian Tradition
  • Golden or Fallen? A Note on Φ
  • The Cosmic Liturgy and the Mind of the Creator
Christ, Our Inspiration

About David Clayton

The Way of Beauty is managed, maintained, and, unless otherwise stated, written by David Clayton. David is an Englishman living in New Hampshire, USA. He is an artist, teacher, published writer and broadcaster who holds a permanent post as Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Liberal Arts at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. The Way of Beauty program, which is offered at TMC, focuses on the link between Catholic culture, with a special emphasis on art, and the liturgy. David was received into the Church in London in 1993.

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