If the deep purpose of creaturely reality is to make manifest the glory of God, then the ‘place-writing’ of Robert Macfarlane may be said to register whole constellations and caverns of glory to which we are customarily oblivious— ‘continents within…
‘We don’t become better people because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves,’ David Brooks suggests in The Road to Character (2015). ‘Education,’ he declares further, ‘is the process of love formation.’ [1] A New…
Marcel Hébert. Religious Experience in the Work of Richard Wagner. Edited by C. J. T. Talar; translated by C. J. T. Talar and Elizabeth Emery. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2015. 192 pages. €65.00. Marcel Hébert’s study outlines…
Gisela Kreglinger. The Spirituality of Wine. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 2016. 300 pages. $24.00. Gisela Kreglinger’s The Spirituality of Wine is as rife with careful research as it is with food for thought.[1] The book’s main claim can be…
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final installment of a series by Jim McCullough that will look at the ways in which art contributes to faith. Please be sure to read parts one, two and three. How does art…
‘After I released my catch, Mr. Herzer and I paused for a moment to appreciate our good fortune. In less than five minutes, we had landed a fish of almost startling beauty in a setting no less lovely. I am…
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…
Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011, xii + 206 pp., £12.99 paper. No stranger to Transpositions, Hans Boersma here argues for a sacramental (aka participatory) ontology, and this with reference to nouvelle théologie. The book is, then,…
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part review (see the first part here) of Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley, eds. Theology, Aesthetics, & Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 313 pp., £68.00 cloth. In continuing our…