Last autumn, I visited a large congregation in London while on a research trip. The church’s leadership team graciously permitted me to examine their historical archives, and significant church members even provided me with a home-cooked meal. I was impressed…
Editor’s Note: This is the second 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. Hansen Lectureship Series. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017, xiii…
Mary Poppins, the film based on the novel by Australian writer P. L. Travers, was one of Walt Disney’s greatest successes when it first debuted in 1964, and its five Academy Awards (out of thirteen nominations), its Golden Globe Awards…
Editor’s Note: This is the first 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. Hansen Lectureship Series. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017, xiii…
TheoArtistry is a new dimension within the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) based in the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews. This initiative explores how ITIA’s world-leading research may impact the making and practice…
Jill K. H. Geoffrion. Visions of Mary: Art, Devotion, and Beauty at Chartres Cathedral. Paraclete Press, 2017. 192 pp. Colour illlus. ISBN: 978-1-61261-894-4. £17.98 hardcover. The unparalleled intact collection of medieval stained glass in Chartres cathedral has long been justly…
Melanie Keefe. Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. vi+ 232pp. £16.99 hardcover. In her insightful and well-researched monograph, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain, Melanie Keefe…
In the midst of expositing the doctrine of Creation that takes up the third volume of his Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth addresses das Nichtige: Nothingness, the chaos that negates God’s creative work and is not to be found anywhere in…
Jeremy S. Begbie. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, viii + 261 (272) pp., £35.00 hardback. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening (henceforth, MMG), by Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of…