Clinton Collister

Clinton is an MLitt student at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in St Andrews, under the supervision of George Corbett. He is researching the theological meaning of long narrative poetic forms, the relationship between secularism and the marginalization of these forms, and the ways in which these issues surface in the poetry and poetics of C. S. Lewis. Other interests include the poetics of T. S. Eliot, Anglo-Catholic theology, and the late twentieth-century renewal of narrative poetry.

The Problem of Hierarchy in The Idiot

Many may wonder if the dogmatic claims in doctrinal statements such as the Apostle’s Creed are still true or relevant to the lives of modern Christians. Joseph Ratzinger takes up this question in his introduction to Christianity and concludes that…