This post is Part I in a series highlighting some insightful documentary films from the past decade on art and artmaking. In Werner Herzog’s award-winning documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), we are given rare access to the subterranean chambers…
Robin Stockitt, Imagination and the Playfulness of God: The Theological Implications of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Definition of the Human Imagination (Eugene,OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011). 179 pages. In The Imagination and the Playfulness of God, Robin Stockitt undertakes both a theology of the human…
It was Henry Hart Milman who evaluated Christendom in the post-Constantine era thusly: “As Christianity worked downwards into lower levels of society […] the general effect could not but be that the age would drag down religion to its level.”[1]…
Aidan Nichols. A Key to Balthasar: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2011. 144 pp. ISBN: 978-0232528589. With ambitious effort, Aidan Nichols’ publication A Key to Balthasar condenses into four chapters the major terms…
Andrew Davison (ed). Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition. 2011. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. In his Introduction, Andrew Davison unpacks the title and gives shape to the collection. He notes: The approach to apologetics offered…
During a recent visit with my in-laws, my two and a half year old daughter, at the end of a very hot day, made a disconcerting discovery. In an attempt to escape the day’s sweltering heat (41˚C), my wife and…
Last semester I taught a popular music history course. When we got to music of the early 1990s, one of my students started singing a contemporary worship song along with what we were listening to. I think my student was…
Paul Roorda is a contemporary Canadian artist working in a variety of media. He holds a number of degrees including a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Waterloo (1988), an M. A. in Sociology from Northeastern University (1992),…
It happens to pretty much everyone at an early age. You’re handed a paper smothered in dots, and are instructed to carefully draw lines from one to another, with the promise that an image would appear. Thick crayons scrunched in…