Roger Scruton. The Soul of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, viii + 205 pp., $27.95 cloth. In this, the forty-first text of non-fiction published by Roger Scruton, the central aim is no less than the salvation of the…
The Revd Dr Robert MacSwain, a St Andrews alum, alerts us to two sessions at this year’s American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature conference in Baltimore, Maryland, November 2013, that are relevant to Transpositions readers: 1) “‘A New Way of Doing Theology’:…
James K.A. Smith, The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012, xviii + 229pp., £14.99 paper. In this 2nd edition of his first book, James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin…
Robert Wuthnow. The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univeristy of California Press, 2012, ix + 332 pp., £24.95 cloth. In this book, Robert Wuthnow, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, investigates…
Kristin Schwain. Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, xi + 172 pp., £22.75 cloth. In this exploration of late nineteenth-century religious art in America, Kristin Schwain, Associate Professor of…
Richard Viladesau. Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, xi + 294 pp. £17.99 A classic in the field, Viladesau’s Theological Aesthetics begins with the possibility of theological aesthetics, addressing approaches “from above” as well as “from…
Sara Anson Vaux. The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012, v + 259 pp., £16.99 paper. In the Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood, Sara Anson Vaux, Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University, presents…
Lance Gharavi, ed. Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith. New York/Oxon: Routledge, 2012. 248 pp., £90.00 case bound. The contributors to this volume make the argument that theatre and performance studies should take religion seriously, admitting that religion is…
David Bentley Hart. The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012, xi + 172 pp., £16.99 paper. David Bentley Hart is well-known for his works of non-fiction, including The Beauty of the Infinite and Atheist Delusions, but The Devil…