Review: Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture
Keith L. Johnson and Timothy Larsen, eds. Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2013, 208 pp., £12.99/$20.00, paper. The question of ‘Christ…
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The Narrative Imagination: Resourcing Reception Pneumatology
In this post I want to suggest Pentecostal/Charismatic spiritualities find ways of keeping the narrative imagination at play in worship and theology by embodying…
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Aesthetics as Concealment [and]/or Disclosure
Following up an earlier post, “The Imagination between Beauty and Goodness,” in which I discussed how the imagination might help bring the values of beauty and…
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The Imagination between Beauty and Goodness
In Visual Faith, William Dyrness entertains two questions concerning the uncomfortable, and at times awkward, relationship between beauty and goodness. The first: “Do pursuits…
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Listening Beyond Consensus: A Receptive Disposition
In this post I want to suggest a way in which film can utilize what C.S. Lewis called “the narrative qualities of the [in…
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Review: Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture
Keith L. Johnson and Timothy Larsen, eds. Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2013, 208 pp., £12.99/$20.00, paper. The question of ‘Christ…
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“The End Is Not Yet”: Learning to Live an “After” life in Popular Culture
In this post, I want to offer several thoughts on the way in which popular culture imagines the challenges of a post-life; first, with…
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Playful, Glad, and Free: Karl Barth and a Theology of Popular Culture
Jessica DeCou, Playful, Glad, and Free: Karl Barth and a Theology of Popular Culture. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013. 240 pp., £38.99/$59.00 paper. For those questioning…
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Theology of Culture and the “Breaking of Descriptions”
In appreciation of recent posts by Michael Ward, Robert MacSwain and Ann Loades, all highlighting the work of Austin Farrer (1904-1968), my aim is…
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