Review: God in the Enlightenment
God in the Enlightenment, ed. William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 322. £22.99/$34.95 In the wake of…
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There Is Nothing In The Dark To Be Afraid Of
Horror Studies has in the past few decades become increasingly interested in philosophy. The objects of fear that horror produced were not merely a…
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Review: Culture and the Death of God
Terry Eagleton, Culture and the Death of God, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2014, pgs. 208 $19.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20399-8 Terry Eagleton…
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Theology of the Body in Modern Horror
In the history of the development of the horror novel certain periods become associated with certain social and cultural anxieties. The classic example is…
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Let There Be Rock: The Strange Poetics of Richard Dawkins’ Rock Opera
It is perhaps one of the more immediately striking partnerships in the history of music. On one side we have Tuomas Holopainen, pianist and…
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Review: The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame
Michael Camille, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009 xv + 377pp. Highly respected art…
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Surfing the Web: Our Contemporary Visual (il)Literacy
At a recent Society for the Study of Theology conference in Manchester, Society President and Professor David Brown stated plainly the kind of grim diagnosis of contemporary…
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Facing the Darkness III: Monstrous Ontology, Part I
The previous two pieces in this series have attempted to use the figure of the monster to draw out some of the flaws and…
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Facing the Darkness II: The Gaps in the System
In my previous post, I introduced the epistemic shifts occurring across the theological, political and philosophical landscape of the early 1800s which gave rise…
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