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The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel painted by Michaelangelo and Hobart Press’s publication of A Pastor's Plea for Evangelical Catholic Truth both share the same fundamental purpose– they serve to create legitimacy for a religious state as contributions to the arts. Obviously Michaelangelo’s magnum opus is vastly different than the transcription of a sermon delivered in a small church in 19th Century Columbus, Georgia. However, both of these objects serve as an apparatus to the papal authority– The frescoes, to the macro, and the sermon, to the micro. Philanthropy as well as support for the arts was established as a key tenet in the Christian Church from the early days of Catholic Papal authority. It was Episcopal thinkers such as John Henry Hobart, of whom Hobart Press was named after, who were able to take the formula as used by the Catholic and Anglican Churches and successfully tweak it to suit the newly formed American Episcopal Church.
Pictured is the Trinity Episcopal Church Sanctuary.