Analogy, Sacramentality and the Place of Natural Theology
Karl Barth’s position, articulated in the first volume of the Church Dogmatics, that the doctrine of analogy (analogia entis) is the invention of the…
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Cultivating Ears to Hear Beauty’s Call
Attending St. Andrews, I found myself one of the few defenders of natural theology, surrounded by a chorus of (very polite) Barthian “Neins!” It…
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Introducing: Symposium on Imaginative Natural Theology
With the recent publication of The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology,[1] it is fair to say that there is a renewed interest in natural…
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The Integrity of Using Art, Part 2
In my last post, “The Integrity of Using Art, Part 1,” I suggested that when using art, affirming the integrity of the work is…
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Considering Jonathan Borofsky’s “Walking to the Sky”
In my last post, I suggested that Jonathan Borofsky’s counting and keeping of a dream record might be seen in terms of ancient Jewish…
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Counting and Dreams: Jonathan Borofsky as Scribe
Jonathan Borofsky (b. 1942) is an American artist best known for his wall drawings, installations and public sculpture. He studied at Carnegie Mellon University,…
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Signs and Sacraments: Considering “Natural Signs and Knowledge of God”
C. Stephen Evans. Natural Signs and Knowledge of God: A New Look at Theistic Arguments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, x + 207 pp.,…
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