Review: Karl Rahner’s Theological Aesthetics
Peter Joseph Fritz. Karl Rahner’s Theological Aesthetics. The Catholic University of America Press, 2014, xvii + 286 pp., £45.95. In Karl Rahner’s Theological Aesthetics,…
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The Salt of the Earth: A Meditation
‘We are a ferocious animal. We humans are terrible animals. Here in Europe, in Africa, in South America, everywhere. We are extremely violent. Our…
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Robert Macfarlane and the Glory of the Wild Places
If the deep purpose of creaturely reality is to make manifest the glory of God, then the ‘place-writing’ of Robert Macfarlane may be said…
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ITIA Art Exhibition, ‘The World “behind” and “in front of” the Work’
While a scholarly investigation of art engages the imagination and intellect, a practical interaction with art employs the physical senses. More profoundly, art that…
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The Setting Sun in a Foreign Land
Experience and the written word seem to indicate that separation is beneficial on various levels. Thus, in order to truly appreciate something, one must…
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‘About Suffering They Were Never Wrong’
Just before the dawn of the bloodiest century, Mark Twain conducted ‘scientific experiments’ in the London Zoological Gardens in which he contrasted the characteristics…
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Javert Derailed: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
If you had told me a year ago that I would write a play and get to see it performed in London in front…
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The Lands Between: Working in Interdisciplinary Spaces
Gerard Loughlin has referred to interdisciplinary scholars as ‘those who work at the edges … who wander, though determinedly, in the lands between, in…
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Review: Redeeming Laughter
Peter Berger, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, 2nd ed. New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2014. 201 pp. £22.99/$42.00 Fittingly, the title…
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