In the introduction to the Imagination Symposium, I mentioned that I would be writing on synthetic imagination. Recent conversations with colleagues, however, persuaded me that the term ‘synthetic’ unfortunately connotes either artificiality (e.g. synthetic leather vs. real leather) or Hegelian…
Peter Berger, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, 2nd ed. New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2014. 201 pp. £22.99 Fittingly, the title of Peter Berger’s valuable little book on comedy contains a polite pun. The first two words…
Question: What do Daenerys Targaryen, The Unburnt, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, and yourself—with fingers hovering idly over trackpad and eyes bouncing across lines of internet text—have in common? I answer: Enchantment. Both cultures are defined increasingly by perspectives…
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final part of a three-part review. To read the entire series, please see parts one and two. Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley, eds. Theology, Aesthetics, & Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Oxford:…
A sacred artist whose work graces churches and homes throughout his native England, Nicholas Mynheer (pronounced MY-neer) works in paint, glass, and stone. He was born in 1958 in Horton-cum-Studley, a country village in the wetland region of Otmoor, Oxfordshire;…
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part review (see the first part here) Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley, eds. Theology, Aesthetics, & Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 313 pp., £68.00 cloth. In continuing…
Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a three-part review. Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley, eds. Theology, Aesthetics, & Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 313 pp., £68.00 cloth. In September 2010, after completing…
Over the past decade or so, I’ve begun to steep myself in some of the ancient rhythms and rituals of the Church. I have taken to incorporating disciplines like the Sabbath, silence and solitude and fasting into my regular life…
Trevor Hart, Gavin Hopps, and Jeremy Begbie, eds. Art, Imagination and Christian Hope: Patterns of Promise. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012, xi + 193 pp., £55.00 hardcover. The fruit of a 2006 colloquium hosted by the Institute for Theology, Imagination and…