Editor’s Note: Over the last several weeks, we have enjoyed several insightful interactions with Advent and Christmas poetry taken from Malcom Guite’s anthology Waiting on the Word. As our poetry symposium concludes, we offer thoughts inspired by W. H. Auden’s…
Editor’s Note: For our fourth Advent reflection on Malcolm Guite’s, Waiting on the Word (Canterbury Press, 2015), Reviews Editor Karen McClain Kiefer reflects upon Richard Bauckham’s ‘Song of the Shepherds’ and the importance of reflection after Christmas and the New Year. …
Editor’s Note: For our third Advent reflection on Malcolm Guite’s, Waiting on the Word (Canterbury Press, 2015), Kevin Antlitz reflects upon Anne Ridler’s ‘Christmas and Common Birth’ and the importance of the ‘flesh’ in Christian theology and anthropology. Christmas and Common Birth…
One of the more familiar stories from the Hebrew Bible comes from the ‘Call of Isaiah’ in Isaiah 6. The lines ‘Woe is me!’, ‘Here I am, send me!’ and the Trisagion, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy is Yhwh of Armies’, are…
George Bernanos. Joy. Introduction and Notes by Andrew T.J. Kaethler. Tacoma, WA: Cluny Media, 2017. 340 pp. £13.57/ $17.95 It is difficult to portray good characters. I do not mean ‘good’ here as in high quality, complex characters, but rather, morally…
Editor’s Note: For our second Advent reflection on Malcolm Guite’s, Waiting on the Word (Canterbury Press, 2015), Nayeli Riano reflects upon George Herbert’s ‘Christian (I)’ and its similarities to Pieter Bruegel’s painting, ‘Census at Bethlehem’ (1566). Christmas (I) George Herbert After all pleasures…
‘All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.’ [1] The framing of life in…
Maria Pia Di Bella and James Elkins, editors, Representations of Pain in Art and Culture, Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies 4 (London: Routledge, 2013), xiii + 216 pp. incl. index and contributor bios. Hardcover, $160.00 / £95.00 from…
Editor’s Note: For our first Advent reflection on Malcolm Guite’s, Waiting on the Word (Canterbury Press, 2015), Kimberley Anderson engages with John Donne’s sonnet, ‘Annunciation’. Perhaps appropriate to Guite’s own prolific career as a poet, scholar and musician, Kimberley writes her own…