Shannon Craigo-Snell. The Empty Church:Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 220 pages. £51.00. At a time of great change politically and globally, The Empty Church is a very helpful, fascinating and important text which provides appropriate…
On a cold, bright day in November, I stepped into the Senate Room at the University of St Andrews to participate in my first ever symposium. A dozen or so august academics gazed down upon the room from antique portraits.…
Danny Boyle, the British film director who is responsible for Trainspotting (1996), Sunshine (2007) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), reprised his early directorial career on the stage with a modern adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 2011. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and…
Trevor Hart, Making Good: Creation, Creativity, and Artistry. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014. Vi+368pp. $59.95. The convergence between theology, imagination & the arts is an area that continues to inspire and initiate serious scholarship. In fact, it is the entire…
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of a four-part series by Jim McCullough that will look at the ways in which art contributes to faith. Please be sure to read parts one and two. How does phenomenology illuminate the…
James McCullough. Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation. Wipf and Stock, 2015. 146pp, B ISBN: 9781625649218. $20. It is a pleasure to be reviewing the first monograph by an author with manifold connections to the Institute for Theology,…
Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a series by Naomi Billingsley, who will be writing on reflections on art at Chichester Cathedral. In my previous piece about the art at Chichester, I discussed some of the oldest works in the…
Beyonce Knowles-Carter. Lemonade. Parkwood; Columbia, 2016. 10 tracks, including music video. £13.99 on iTunes. Perhaps this ‘review’ should begin with an apology. It is unusual for the Reviews Editor to write about a primary text, a pop album, as this…
David Brown has written, ‘Dance’s continuing engagement with the divine stands as a silent reprimand to the Church for so arbitrarily narrowing its own horizons.’ [1] Four examples of professional, world-class dance’s engagement with Christianity through the life of Jesus…