When Max Ernst first displayed The Blessed Virgin Chastising the Infant Jesus in 1926, the citizens of Cologne were aghast. The public outcry was such that the archbishop closed the exhibition in which the painting was held and proceeded to…
Douglas Christie. The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 488pp., $31.95 Douglas Christie’s The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology is a lyrical synthesis of naturalism, theology, poetry, and…
ONE ICON SPEAKS Mary with her legs crossed speaks. Gabriel’s arm and wing just visible Mary with her long cheeks and raised hands mouths choice in thirty languages. Gabriel’s arm and wing just visible she leans in, looks straight, mouths…
Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a series by Naomi Billingsley, who will be writing on reflections on art at Chichester Cathedral. Chichester Cathedral is famed for its modern art – especially the prominent commissions of the…
George Marsden, C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography. Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2016. Vii+264pp. £18.95 The line between commemoration and commercialisation is not always clear and distinct. Writers and publishers often view the opportunity to capitalise on the life…
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a four-part series by Jim McCullough that will look at the ways in which art contributes to faith Theological aesthetics as a discipline seeks to uncover and scrutinize the connections between…
Quality theatre presented from a Christian perspective is hard to find. It exists in small pockets, such as Lamb’s Players Theater in San Diego, California, or Taproot Theater in Seattle, Washington, but these are the exception rather than the norm.…
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki. Through a Lens Darkly: Tracing Redemption in Film. Wipf and Stock, 2015, 134pp, B ISBN: 9781498203135. $18. Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki’s ambitious book, Through a Lens Darkly: Tracing Redemption in Film, begins hypothesizing that it could be beneficial…
‘After I released my catch, Mr. Herzer and I paused for a moment to appreciate our good fortune. In less than five minutes, we had landed a fish of almost startling beauty in a setting no less lovely. I am…