In the midst of expositing the doctrine of Creation that takes up the third volume of his Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth addresses das Nichtige: Nothingness, the chaos that negates God’s creative work and is not to be found anywhere in…
When Gadamer directed his attention to the topic of beauty in his celebrated 1977 essay The Relevance of the Beautiful, he was turning back his attention from issues of language and meaning, to the question of artistic experience that had…
Michael Camille, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009 xv + 377pp. Highly respected art historian Michael Camille’s posthumously published work is clearly a labour of love. A staggering five years…
The shepherd’s brow, fronting forked lightning, owns The horror and the havoc and the glory Of it…. —G. M. Hopkins, ‘The Shepherd’s Brow,’ 1918. Be they figures truly Christ-like, or those of severe morality or utter wickedness, priests have remained…
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Gen 1:27, NIV) God created the heavens, the earth, man and woman…all out of love. But what if progress was the fuel…
This is the final post of a collaborative series, A Lenten Journey: Poetic Reflections, featuring the poetry of Gerald St. Maur alongside the photography of Rev. Thomas Braur. Resurrection His body spent and sealed from view, the body politic had…
The Third Fall But crowds grow impatient with pause, their power lost in the irritant of reflection. A clenched fist thrust in His face was all it took for Jesus to smile back and resume his climb. His feet now…
This is the second of a three-part collaborative series featuring the poetry of Gerald St. Maur and the photography of Rev. Thomas Brauer. Mother Mary Chant is but the music of the mob, unheard by those not belonging to it, their…
As we enter into Holy Week, it is easy to fall into the patterns of remembrance, repentance, and expectation, leading up to the great celebration of Easter Sunday. This ease of observing the liturgical patterns is not necessarily a bad…