The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales


It was good to see some of the paintings in the NSW art gallery in Sydney. we have mentioned one painting. I missed the John Constable but these caught my eye. All are in the opublic domain and gathered via Wikimedia Commons, except the Augustus John found here - https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/1134/

Tissot

Edouard Detaille

Cezanne

Monet

van Gogh
Augustus John

10 Impressionist Artists



  1. Claude Monet
  2. Edouard Manet
  3. Pierre Auguste Renoir
  4. Camille Pissarro
  5. Alfred Sisley
  6. Berthe Morisot
  7. Mary Cassat
  8. Frédéric Bazille
  9. Gustave Caillebotte
  10. Paul Cezanne

10 Great Landscapes

Caspar David Friedrich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

1. A field of poppies, Monet
2. View of Dedham, Gainsborough
3. Flatford Mill, Constable
4. Wheatfield with cypresses, Van Gogh
5. Rainbow, Turner
6. Monte St Victoire, Cezanne
7. View of Delft, Vermeer
8. Winter landscape, Brueghel the elder
9. Vesuvius, Wright of Derby
10. Wanderer above the sea of fog, Friedrich

10 Most Famous Paintings Ever

This is debatable, of course, but I'd say
1. Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci
2. Starry night, Vincent Van Gogh
3. Water Lily Pond (with bridge), Claude Monet
4. Girl with the pearl earring, Jan Vermeer
5. Nightwatch, Rembrandt van Rijn
6. Guernica, Pablo Picasso
7. The scream, Edvard Munch
8. The persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali
9. Bal du moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
10. American Gothic, Grant Wood
(The picture includes Whistler's mother and Magritte's Son of Man as extras)