Performative Hermeneutics: Considering “Biblical Womanhood”
In his review of Rachel Held Evans’ recent and somewhat controversial book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting…
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Review: A Key to Balthasar
Aidan Nichols. A Key to Balthasar: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2011. 144 pp. ISBN: 978-0232528589. With…
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Review: Imaginative Apologetics
Andrew Davison (ed). Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition. 2011. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. In his Introduction, Andrew Davison…
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Review: Do the Gods Wear Capes?
Ben Saunders, Do the Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes (New York: Continuum, 2011). 178 pages. Only half-jokingly I occasionally recommend to my…
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Review: Resonant Witness
Jeremy S. Begbie & Steven R. Guthrie (eds), Resonant Witness: Conversations Between Music and Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011). The aim of this roughly…
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Review: Christ to Coke
Martin Kemp, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (Oxford University Press, 2012). 368 pages. What images deserve the status of ‘icon’? In his…
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Review: Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Review of Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 186 pages. Beauty is a significant philosophical category for the study…
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Learning in a Musical Key: A Review
James McCullough reviews Lisa M. Hess’s book Learning in a Musical Key: Insight for Theology in Performative Mode (Pickwick, 2011).
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C.S. Lewis’s Guidelines for a Christian Journal
In April 1947, C.S. Lewis wrote to Laurence Whistler with advice on the creation of a Christian literary journal which Whistler was hoping to…
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