Lewis Carroll: An Easter Greeting
AN EASTER GREETING TO EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES ‘ALICE’ [1] DEAR CHILD, Please to fancy, if you can, that you are reading a real letter, from a real friend whom you have seen, and whose voice you can seem to…
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Review: Religious Experience in the Work of Richard Wagner
Marcel Hébert. Religious Experience in the Work of Richard Wagner. Edited by C. J. T. Talar; translated by C. J. T. Talar and Elizabeth Emery. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2015. 192 pages. €65.00. Marcel Hébert’s study outlines…
Featured Series: TheoArtistry
During the month of April, we are delighted to offer articles that will illuminate some of the work that has occurred in a new project within the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) at the University of St…
Review: The Faithful Artist
Cameron J. Anderson. The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016, xi + 280 pp., $26.00 Cameron J. Anderson’s The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts presents new, more…
Review: Seeing Things as They Are
John R. Searle, Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception, Oxford University Press, 2015. 240 pages. Six color plates. Hardcover. £17.49 Few matters are more central to the discipline of theological aesthetics than the dynamics of human perception.…
The Conversion of Stanley Hauerwas
Life writing in a postsecular age is complicated business, just ask Stanley Hauerwas. Few life writings in recent years have stirred as much interest among North American Christians as the publication of Hauerwas’ Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir (2010). Yet,…
Review: Modern Art and the Life of a Culture
Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness. Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic. 2016. 376 pages. $15.25 paperback, £11.39 Kindle. In this compelling collaboration between an artist and…
The Narrative Imagination: Resourcing Reception Pneumatology
In this post I want to suggest Pentecostal/Charismatic spiritualities find ways of keeping the narrative imagination at play in worship and theology by embodying a “reception pneumatology” that continues to emphasize “the God-given responsibility of being active, creative, imaginative receivers…
Review: Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology
Thomas P. Rausch. Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology: Toward Recovering an Eschatological Imagination. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2012, xvii + 169 pp., £13.31 paperback. With this latest addition to his ever-growing corpus, Thomas P. Rausch SJ, T. Marie Chilton Professor of…