{"title":"Brian C. Nixon","description":"Brian C. Nixon is a writer, artist, musician, and educator. He's a graduate of California State University, Stanislaus (BA), Trinity Seminary (MA), Veritas Seminary (MA), and is a Fellow at Oxford Graduate School (DPhil). Married with three grown children, his writing interests yearn to inspire the Christian imagination, covering three broad philosophical areas--truth, beauty, and goodness, often summarized as transcendentals, or in a modern context, theopoetics.","products":[{"product_id":"tilt-finding-christ-in-culture-paperback","title":"Tilt: Finding Christ in Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Tilt: Finding Christ in Culture, Brian Nixon takes the reader on a voyage of discovery, traveling the currents of God's presence in culture, summed up in four streams that define a noun: people, places, things, and ideas. In his journey, Nixon touches upon people as diverse as Andy Warhol, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Redford, and Georgia O'Keeffe; places such as Canterbury, England, and Las Vegas, Nevada; things as unique as typewriters, trains, and abstract art; and ideas as fascinating as mathematics and beauty. In these short impressionistic pieces, Nixon, with the curiosity of a journalist, elicits intelligent discussion and poetic articulations, prompting a head tilt from those who join him on a theo-cultural expedition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036014706911,"sku":"9781532691416","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/E1OwQLsT_69781532691416.webp?v=1786164717"},{"product_id":"beauty-and-the-banana-a-theopoetic-aesthetic-paperback","title":"Beauty (and the Banana): A Theopoetic Aesthetic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is it that makes something beautiful? Is beauty solely in the eye of the beholder, or something deeper, more significant? In Beauty (and the Banana), Nixon writes as an introductory book for Christian leaders, providing the reader an overview of the historical, hermeneutical, and heuristic considerations of beauty. Using the artwork Comedian (a banana taped to a wall) by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan as a springboard, Nixon addresses various fundamental factors of beauty--ontology (being), teleology (form and understanding), and immutability (transcendence and eternality). Integrating poetry and classical ideals throughout, Beauty (and the Banana)'s response to the above questions may surprise all who read--beauty is more than meets the eye.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51179346559199,"sku":"9781725285323","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6C4G3l8I2z9781725285323.webp?v=1786362727"},{"product_id":"beauty-and-the-banana-a-theopoetic-aesthetic-hardcover","title":"Beauty (and the Banana): A Theopoetic Aesthetic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is it that makes something beautiful? Is beauty solely in the eye of the beholder, or something deeper, more significant? In Beauty (and the Banana), Nixon writes as an introductory book for Christian leaders, providing the reader an overview of the historical, hermeneutical, and heuristic considerations of beauty. Using the artwork Comedian (a banana taped to a wall) by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan as a springboard, Nixon addresses various fundamental factors of beauty--ontology (being), teleology (form and understanding), and immutability (transcendence and eternality). Integrating poetry and classical ideals throughout, Beauty (and the Banana)'s response to the above questions may surprise all who read--beauty is more than meets the eye.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51254817652959,"sku":"9781725285330","price":39.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jQJlSyceS79781725285330.webp?v=1787500331"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/brian-c-nixon.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}