In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such ceremonies to instead admit that “a substantial part of what lies ahead of you is going…
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Pictures at a Theological Exhibition: Scenes of the Church’s Worship, Witness and Wisdom. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. 327 pages. £14.99 The collection of essays that comprise Kevin Vanhoozer’s Pictures at a Theological Exhibition animates his…
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present a Q&A with ITIA Co-Founder Prof. Trevor Hart. In this interview, Hart discusses the beginnings of ITIA and its subsequent contributions, the importance of imagination for theology, as well as his own future…
‘Sometimes we can get lost living in the here and now Sometimes it takes the sky to see what’s on the ground’ –Ben Rector, ‘30,000 Feet’ [1] For those individuals born during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the possibility…
Alissa Wilkinson and Robert Joustra. How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich. 2016. 208 pages. Paperback $16.00. In How to Survive the Apocalypse, Robert Joustra and Alissa…
In the spirit of whimsy, I shall present this post through a series of inter- and un-related sketches or doodles rather than linear argumentation. Whimsy is the gamesome servant of the imagination. Generally speaking, whimsy is related to Aristotle’s principle…
Walt Whitman is not likely to appear on anyone’s list of great Christian poets. And with reason. From the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, to his death in 1892, the good gray poet had cosied with Emersonian…
Catherine M. Wallace. The Confrontational Wit of Jesus. Cascade Books; Eugene, Oregon. 2016. 165 pages, Paperback. This book of fifteen chapters seeks to present an introduction to what the author perceives about the wit of Jesus. Wallace sets out the…
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not…