Editor’s Note: In this 2-part series, Jesse Nickel considers violence in the films of the Coen Brothers. The first part will posted on Monday 10 February. In the previous post, I discussed the characteristics of the violence of the Coen…
Editor’s Note: In this 2-part series, Jesse Nickel considers violence in the films of the Coen Brothers. The second part will post on Tuesday 11 February. Over the course of the past three decades, filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have…
The Dorothy L. Sayers Society is delighted to announce it is offering an Award to celebrate the 100th birthday of Barbara Reynolds, President of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society and good friend of Dorothy herself. We are inviting the submission…
I’d like to report the results of a meeting held last week at the Actors’ Chapel in New York City. Ten artists – members of the Catholic Artists’ Society, parishioners of the Actors’ Chapel, and friends – met to discuss…
What might make a good Sabbath habit for a clergy person in front of the TV or laptop screen? And what could possibly be the relation of this habit to the service of God’s kingdom, or to the human wellness…
Editor’s Note: The Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts is planning an international conference on Theology and Science Fiction for 2016. Watch this space for updates. In 1962, C.S. Lewis and Kingsley Amis talked over drinks about the developing genre…
My aim here is to follow up a previous question addressing whether or not popular music creates overly-sentimental versions of biography for our imaginations or enlivens our imaginations to reconsider some conceptions about last things, especially issues concerning the construction…
Matthew Levering. The Theology of Augustine: An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013, xviii + 204 pp., £15.99 paper. In The Theology of Augustine, Matthew Levering, professor of religious studies at the University of…
As Jeremy Begbie reminds his readers, “All good theology is done on the cliff-edge—one step too far and you tumble into idolatry, one step back and the view is never so good.”[1] In no place is this more true than in…