Author’s Note: This post is adapted from material in Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith, Emmaus Road Publishing, released May 2017. What is the role of imagination in apologetics? The imagination is connected to…
‘We don’t become better people because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves,’ David Brooks suggests in The Road to Character (2015). ‘Education,’ he declares further, ‘is the process of love formation.’ [1] A New…
It would be difficult to read Jackson Pollock’s so-called drip paintings as the product of theological intent. Judging by their titles, which range from Devil to Cathedral to non-descript numbers, not to mention the legion of studies on Pollock’s influences, [1]…
A hush descends over the room. The silence is only interrupted by the whirring of a machine sending curled fingers of smoke onto the pale-pink illuminated stage. With hands clasped and eyes closed, the lines of closely huddled bodies sway…
God in the Enlightenment, ed. William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 322. £22.99 In the wake of a seemingly resurgent right wing populism, a concerning rise of virulent xenophobia and islamophobia, the question…
We are delighted to draw your attention to the following Call for Papers for the Verge Conference, hosted by our friends in the School of the Arts, Media + Culture at Trinity Western University. The theme of this year’s conference is…
Editor’s Note: As part of our monthly focus on the TheoArtistry project and its collaboration with Sir James MacMillan, we offer another insightful article that examines one of his pieces. Waiting. Anticipation. Our society is not skilled at either. Patience…
Philip Tallon, The Poetics of Evil: Toward an Aesthetic Theodicy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xx + 252 pp., £52.00 With refreshingly lucid prose and a creative handling of diverse sources, Philip Tallon culls the best insights of theological aesthetics…
Editor’s Note: As part of our focus on the TheoArtistry project, we are pleased to offer an article that examines a composition by the eminent composer, Sir James MacMillan. ‘On the Annuncation of the Blessed Virgin’ A winged harbinger, from…