The Myth Made Fact in the Local Congregation
One of the stumbling blocks that held C. S. Lewis back from embracing Christianity was his inability to understand how the death of an…
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Reviews: Religion, Theatre, and Performance and Blake.Wordsworth.Religion.
Lance Gharavi, ed. Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith. New York/Oxon: Routledge, 2012. 248 pp., £90.00/$131.00 case bound. The contributors to this volume…
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Reviews: The Devil and Pierre Gernet & Dickens, Christianity and ‘The Life of Our Lord’
David Bentley Hart. The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012, xi + 172 pp., £16.99/$25.00 paper. David Bentley Hart is well-known…
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Reflecting on the Lion’s World during Lent: Scripture and Literature in Conversation
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams recently published a compact volume reflecting on the theological riches of Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, titled The Lion’s World:…
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Review: Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible
Charles LaPorte. Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, 304 pp., £39.95/$45.00 cloth. LaPorte is one of the most incisive voices…
Read MoreAcross thresholds: the “and” in theology (religion) and literature
“At best reading theological texts alongside literature is illuminating” – Susan Felch [1] When working in the interdisciplinary contexts, the hazards and pitfalls of…
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Meta-Review: The Hunger Games
We loved Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games (THG). While the movie is okay, we think the books are great. So, when we set…
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Upon Double Reflection
Sitting in Haché Gourmet Burgers restaurant last night in Copenhagen, I found myself gazing into an enormous wall-covering mirror and seeing the world around…
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Defining Fields: Literature and Theology/Religion
In 2010, I attended a session on the state of the field of “religion and literature” at the British Association of Victorian Studies conference….
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