Philip Tallon, The Poetics of Evil: Toward an Aesthetic Theodicy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xx + 252 pp., £52.00 With refreshingly lucid prose and a creative handling of diverse sources, Philip Tallon culls the best insights of theological aesthetics…
After tracing the scattered trail of “dust” through the Scriptures, I’ve come to think that many of us have got Lent only half right. Observing Lent has become a dour discipline because we imagine it to be primarily focused on…
“But in this lay my sin: that I sought pleasure, nobility, and truth not in God but in the beings He created, myself, and others.” …
Gabriel Flynn, and Paul D. Murray, eds. Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, xx + 583. £71 Gabriel Flynn, Lecturer in Systematic Theology at the Mater Dei Institute in Ireland, and…
At a recent Society for the Study of Theology conference in Manchester, Society President and Professor David Brown stated plainly the kind of grim diagnosis of contemporary culture that would ordinarily raise eyebrows if it wasn’t for the tacit agreement felt amongst its audience…
After bellowing his famous “Freedom!” cry, William Wallace dies following a gruesome series of physical and emotional tortures. The elderly Private Ryan breaks down in sobs over the graves of the men who sacrificed their lives to bring him home…
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music, by Martin Geck, translated by Stewart Spencer, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013, 444 pp,£24.50 Christians involved in the arts, whether on the practical or theoretical sides, have long labored under the…
Books There is a feeling just before you read the next book that will fill a blank in your thoughts, or form the formless, wherever it is in you: a sense that your ignorance knows it is mortal. It…
CIVA’s “Between Two Worlds: Contemporary Art and the Church,” June 11-14, Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, Michigan CIVA invites paper presentations for its ‘Theology and the Visual Arts’ sessions at the biennial conference in one of the follow categories: critical…