Over the past few decades decade, liminality—the study of the passage across boundaries—has become a familiar term in Anglophone theology. In the words of anthropologist Victor Turner, to speak of liminality is to speak of moments of passage in which…
Daniel Rattelle and Clinton Collister, eds. The Slumbering Host. Little Gidding Press, 2019, 105 pp. £7.63 (paperback). The world is not as it once was. Even now, it is changing. In Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Passing of Arthur’, itself the…
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the upcoming symposium ‘Artistry and the Arc of the Atonement’, is postponed indefinitely. However, it will be rescheduled when it is possible to do so and the new date will be posted here. The original call for papers posted…
‘Hey Teo—play some of that back’, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis comments on the delicate tune ‘Thisness’. [1] A previously unreleased track until its inclusion in a ’90s compilation, ‘Thisness’ is spacious, mellow, and stop-and-go; Davis’s lines use the space of…
Christian theology is tasked with gaining knowledge and understanding of things which fall outside of the limits of ordinary discourse and conventional logic. The New Testament demands that believers change their minds in order to see the world anew in…
The Feast of the Epiphany is a day that commemorates, among Western Christians, the visit of royal magi to the baby Jesus and, among Eastern Christians, the baptism of the adult Jesus by his cousin John in the Jordan River.…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: As our series on The Art of Advent: A Painting a Day from Advent to Epiphany by Jane Williams concludes for Christmas, Kevin Antlitz reflects on the miracle of Emmanuel as portrayed in James He Qi’s painting Nativity, and on…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: As our series on The Art of Advent: A Painting a Day by Jane Williams continues, Tristan Cowell reflects on the Great Antiphon O Rex Gentium (King of the Nations) and William Blake’s painting Elohim Creating Adam. For more…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This week in our series on The Art of Advent: A Painting a Day by Jane Williams, Regular Contributor Ewan Bowlby reflects on the Great Antiphon O Oriens (Dayspring) and the fourteenth-century painting The Harrowing of Hell. For more…