John Harvey, The Bible as Visual Culture; When Text Becomes Image, The Bible in the Modern World 52 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press) 2013, xii + 200pp, £50/$80 hardcover. John Harvey, Professor of Art at Aberystwyth University, Wales, has provided…
On the 13th of November people all over Paris were making plans for their weekend. They finished their day’s work, they began their commutes home, they went to football games, concerts, or out for a quiet drink with friends. One…
“Why is it that you like to read such dark stories?” As a literature professor at a small evangelical Christian college, I often get that question or something like it from both students and colleagues. I suppose I get it…
Horror Studies has in the past few decades become increasingly interested in philosophy. The objects of fear that horror produced were not merely a low brow mode of aesthetic expression but a means of understanding the darker sides of thought…
C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos. Edited by Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe. 2013, 184 pp., Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 978-1-60635-183-3. Perelandra is not the first C.S. Lewis book for which his readers reach, yet Lewis himself considered it to be…
Theologian Benjamin Myers argues that modern western culture, like our cultural forbearers, remains rooted in sainthood. Instead of wearing habits and living in monasteries, our saints walk on red carpets. Our celebrity culture is a culture of imitation, the “stars”—their…
It is often argued that we are what we read. According to a study conducted by a professor at Dartmouth, the books we read form us into people resembling the fictional characters with whom we imaginatively identify.[1] As Rebecca Mead…
Let not your hearts be troubled John 14:1-3 Always there comes this parting of the ways The best is wrested from us, born away, No one is with us always, nothing stays, Night swallows even the most perfect day. Time…
Clifton Edwards, Creation’s Beauty as Revelation: Toward a Creational Theology of Natural Beauty (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2014), 194 pp. In his book God and Mystery in Words, David Brown drops an intriguing sentence left intriguingly undeveloped: “Although nowadays it…