I SUSPECT that my title may lead to a false impression. It seems to promise something of the ecstatic kind on which John Ruskin used to discourse. But really I mean the phrase, religion of beauty in ...

If the inspiration for the highest ideals of the Western liberal tradition could be traced to a single city, it would be Florence: birthplace of the Renaissance and hotbed of radical individualism.

While scholars like Copernicus undoubtedly learned from the Islamic world, this was a two-way street, stressed Morrison.

WHAT is to be the religion of the future? How far will traditional beliefs be affected by the view of the universe which modern science sets before us? Such are vitally important questions which in ...

At St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Chicago, Christmas was marked seven years ago by what the pastor, the Rev. J. Stephen Bremer, calls “two rather nondescript services,” on Christmas Eve. Next week the ...

One of the most spectacular examples of Renaissance illuminated manuscripts is going on rare public display as part of the ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Renaissance artists bring a lushly imagined world of blooming gardens, fecund valleys, babbling rivers and frolicking animals to convey an old idea still with us today — that ...

The latest book from Witham (Picasso and the Chess Player) is a workmanlike examination of the early Renaissance polymath Piero, whose life and accomplishments are used to survey “the precipitous ...

For years, in addition to writing about it numerous times for RD, I’ve included a section on psychedelics and religious experience in my Introduction to Religion course. When I first began to teach on ...

In 1975, Newsday published a story about the efforts of a 19-year-old State University at Stony Brook sophomore, Michael ...