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Review: Do the Gods Wear Capes?
Posted on 11/05/2012 | 5 CommentsBen Saunders, Do the Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes (New York: Continuum, 2011). 178 pages. Only half-jokingly I occasionally recommend to my students that they follow the Law of Diminished Expectations: if you go through life with your... -
Review: Resonant Witness
Posted on 30/03/2012 | No CommentsJeremy S. Begbie & Steven R. Guthrie (eds), Resonant Witness: Conversations Between Music and Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011). The aim of this roughly 500-page-long anthology is to “demonstrate the fruitfulness of theology for music, and the fruitfulness of music for... -
Christ to Coke: A Review
Posted on 16/03/2012 | No CommentsMartin Kemp, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (Oxford University Press, 2012). 368 pages. What images deserve the status of ‘icon’? In his newest book, Martin Kemp brings the trained eye and scholarly method of an art historian to... -
Review – Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Posted on 14/03/2012 | 16 CommentsReview of Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 186 pages. Beauty is a significant philosophical category for the study of art and theology. While significant, it can also be challenging to understand due to the... -
Learning in a Musical Key: A Review
Posted on 20/01/2012 | No CommentsJames McCullough reviews Lisa M. Hess's book Learning in a Musical Key: Insight for Theology in Performative Mode (Pickwick, 2011). -
![In April 1947, C.S. Lewis wrote to Laurence Whistler with advice on the creation of a Christian literary journal which Whistler was hoping to start.[1] Here are some of Lewis’s guidelines: ‘I think the Periodical ought to come before the...](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cs-lewis-pipe-115x115.jpg "C.S. Lewis’s Guidelines for a Christian Journal")
C.S. Lewis’s Guidelines for a Christian Journal
Posted on 23/11/2011 | 3 CommentsIn April 1947, C.S. Lewis wrote to Laurence Whistler with advice on the creation of a Christian literary journal which Whistler was hoping to start.[1] Here are some of Lewis’s guidelines: ‘I think the Periodical ought to come before the... -
Where Mortals Dwell: A Review
Posted on 21/11/2011 | No CommentsWhile the scholarly study of place is becoming increasingly more common, there is still comparatively little theological work published on the topic. Craig Bartholomew’s Where Mortals Dwell adds to this biblical and theological conversation by offering, as the subtitle indicates,...
