“Love is greater than taste”: The Moral Architecture of John Betjeman and John Piper

Poet John Betjeman and painter John Piper shared an emphasis on visual attentiveness to place, which in its moral and aesthetic valuation, challenged contemporary standards of taste, especially those modern ones that excluded ornament and the picturesque. With regard to English Christianity, as I ar...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Philip Irving (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2014, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 257-284
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