On the 5th and 6th of March 2018, scholars, composers and poets descended upon the medieval town of St Andrews in order to explore the interface between theology and the arts. The TheoArtistry Festival represented the culmination of a year…
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part article If, as I argued in the first part of this essay, iconoclasm redirects attention, so, too, do images. One particularly dramatic example of that redirection was pointed out…
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a two-part article. Though the term iconoclasm has expanded its meanings and associations over time, it still evokes a more Protestant than Catholic approach to church life. Not only are Protestants…
Bruce R. Berglund. Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague. Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age. Budapest-New York, 2017, xvi+372 pp. £40.00 / €52.00 / $60.00 cloth. Professor Berglund of Calvin College is an historian of what has become…
Reverend Jonathan Arnold, dean of divinity at Magdalen college, Oxford, has written about the ‘seeming paradox that, in today’s so-called secular society, sacred choral music is as powerful, compelling and popular as it has ever been.’ But is this a…
Four models about the relation between science and religion have been proposed (Barbour, 1997): Conflict; Independence; Dialogue; and Integration (Fig. 1). The conflict model arises if one misunderstands the nature of science or religion, by adopting an extreme fundamentalist view…
David Brown. God in a Single Vision: Integrating Philosophy and Theology. Edited by Christopher R. Brewer and Robert MacSwain. London: Routledge, 2016, vi + 190pp., £105.00 hardcover. David Brown’s erudite-yet-accessible tone in God in a Single Vision is illustrative of his…
In my first article, I briefly introduced Bunyan’s use of allegory. In this piece, I consider why Bunyan might have found allegory an effective means of communication. I focus particularly on Bunyan’s allegorical text Holy War. Allegory and Political Protest…
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of a three-part review. Philip Ryken. The Messiah Comes to Middle Earth: Images of Christ’s Threefold Office in the Lord of the Rings. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2017, xiii +136pp., $16.00/ Over the…