Editor’s Note: Over the course of this next week, and before regular posting resumes on 20 January, we will be posting several book reviews. “Take up and read!” David W. Fagerberg, On Liturgical Asceticism. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America…
John Marenbon, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, xi + 755 pp., £95.00 cloth. In this Handbook, Marenbon “presents the state of the art in medieval philosophy as studied in connection with contemporary analytical philosophy.”[p. 1] The Handbook includes thirty-three…
John Webster, Kathryn Tanner and Iain Torrance, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, xi + 708 pp., £100.00, cloth, £30.00, paper. In the introduction to this Handbook, after parsing the designations “Christian doctrine,” “dogmatics,” and “systematic theology,”…
Brian Davies and Eleanore Stump, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xv + 589 pp., £95.00 cloth. In this Handbook, the editors “have tried to pick those issues and topics that allow the reader to see Aquinas’s whole…
Peter Goldie, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, xiv + 722 pp. £32.00 paper. “Philosophical research in the emotions is now extremely active and productive,”[p. 1] says editor Peter Goldie. That said, the Handbook includes thirty-one…
Editor’s Note: Over the course of the next week, we will be posting five review clusters addressing selections from The Oxford Handbook series having to do with art, aesthetics and related themes. Giles Emery, O.P. and Matthew Levering, eds. The Oxford Handbook of…
2013 has been an eventful year for Transpositions. After relaunching as the official blog of ITIA, we have hosted wide-ranging symposia on topics such as Domestic Arts, Beauty, Theology and Comedy, and Imaginative Natural Theology, and welcomed guest contributions from…
We are in the middle of Advent, the tangled point of anticipation. It is a good time for us to pause, step back, ask ourselves why it is we do what we do. Why do we create? What does it…
Timothy M. Costelloe, ed. The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiii + 304 pp., £23.99 paper. In his introduction, Timothy M. Costelloe frames the essays that follow as an attempt to rehabilitate the notion of the Sublime,…