Many may wonder if the dogmatic claims in doctrinal statements such as the Apostle’s Creed are still true or relevant to the lives of modern Christians. Joseph Ratzinger takes up this question in his introduction to Christianity and concludes that…
‘Well that’s … the sort of thing you read about in novels! Prince, darling, that’s all old-fashioned nonsense, the world has grown wiser nowadays’. [1] Thus declares Nastasya Filippovna of Prince Myshkin’s marriage proposal in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. Nastasya’s remark…
‘I can’t understand how one can pass a tree and not be happy at seeing it! Talk to a man and not be happy at loving him! … Look into the eyes that look at you and love you’. [1]…
‘Is it right, Prince, that you once said the world would be saved by “beauty”?’ ‘What is there for me in all this beauty, when I am forced to be aware every minute, every second, that even this tiny fly…
Editor’s note: This article by ITIA Lecturer Rebekah Lamb begins our series on ‘Dostoevsky and Christian Doctrine’. Dr. Lamb explains the genesis of the series after the essay’s conclusion. ‘[B]eing sent to prison was the best thing that ever happened…
On Saturday, 25 April, 2020, over a dozen artists came together for a ‘Zoom-in Playback’ encounter moderated by Karen McClain Kiefer. This event was designed to follow the ‘Time and Again’ art exhibition. The dramatic performance was originally scheduled to…
Editor’s note: In Part 1 of this review, Kieran Gaya reviews the visual and literary component of Transept’s ‘Time and Again’ exhibition. In Part 2, he will review Karen McClain Kiefer’s ‘Time and Again: Playing it Back’ Playback Theatre performance…
My first opportunity to listen to Mary Vanhoozer’s Bard and Ceilidh in full came during an early morning drive from the Loch Lomond region (north of Glasgow) back to St Andrews on Scotland’s East coast. The landscape of rolling hills…
The year 2018 saw the publication of a book jointly written by David Brown and Gavin Hopps, The Extravagance of Music (London: Palgrave Macmilllan). It would be reasonable to expect that this book would receive a range of reviews, but…