A journal of theology, imagination, and the arts.

Call for Papers: C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits

The Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference devoted to the life and work of C. S. Lewis: C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits, Iasi, 22-23 November 2018, continues the series of events devoted to the celebrated Oxonian writer and scholar and is open…

Fairy-Story Apologetics, Pt. 2

Editor’s note: Part one of this installment can be read here. It defined fairy-stories and expressed that they can be a potent defense of Christianity in a postmodern age. It discussed three important preliminary points: a defense of Christianity through…

Fairy-Story Apologetics

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a two-part review. At the mention of Christian apologetics, what comes to mind? Perhaps the first cause argument, teleological argument, ontological argument, cosmological argument and… fairy-tales? J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis,…

Review: The Ecumenism of Beauty

Timothy Verdon, editor. The Ecumenism of Beauty. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2017, 128pp. $28.99 hardcover. This book brings together a collection of essays on the role and practice of Christian visual art.  The seven authors are a variety of Catholic,…

Star Wars: The (Not) Chosen One

It’s 2018, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi has come and gone from theaters. If, by some miracle of God, you have yet to discover the dark underbelly of internet journalism, new Star Wars movies are great paths to this…

Review: Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

Keith L. Johnson and Timothy Larsen, eds. Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture. Downers Grove:  IVP Academic, 2013,  208 pp.,  £12.99,  paper. The question of ‘Christ and Culture’ persists and here we are gifted with a volume whose contributors’ “love for Bonhoeffer,…

Call for Book Chapters: Owen Barfield

OWEN BARFIELD IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS: EXPLORING HIS THOUGHT AND INFLUENCE Publisher: CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING, UK Editor Contact (for prospective contributors): [email protected] The chief purpose of the book is to present fresh scholarship on the work and ideas of the British…