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Reviews: The Fall of Interpretation and Imagining the Kingdom
Posted on 08/06/2013 | No CommentsJames K.A. Smith, The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012, xviii + 229pp., £14.99/$24.99 paper. In this 2nd edition of his first book, James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin... -
Reviews: The God Problem and The Artful Species
Posted on 01/06/2013 | No CommentsRobert Wuthnow. The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univeristy of California Press, 2012, ix + 332 pp., £24.95/$34.95 cloth. In this book, Robert Wuthnow, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, investigates... -
Reviews: Signs of Grace and Sounding the Seasons
Posted on 17/05/2013 | No CommentsKristin Schwain. Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, xi + 172 pp., £22.75/$31.50 cloth. In this exploration of late nineteenth-century religious art in America, Kristin Schwain, Associate Professor of... -
Reviews: Theological Aesthetics, Bridge to Wonder, and Arts of Wonder
Posted on 26/04/2013 | No CommentsRichard Viladesau. Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, xi + 294 pp. £17.99/$27.95 paper. A classic in the field, Viladesau’s Theological Aesthetics begins with the possibility of theological aesthetics, addressing approaches “from above” as well as “from... -
Review: The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood
Posted on 12/04/2013 | No CommentsSara Anson Vaux. The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012, v + 259 pp., £16.99/$24.00 paper. In the Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood, Sara Anson Vaux, Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University, presents... -
Review: A Double Dose of Jesuit Humour
Posted on 22/03/2013 | 1 CommentJake Martin, SJ. What’s So Funny about Faith?: A Memoir from the Intersection of Hilarious and Holy. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2012, 161 pp., £11.50/$13.95 paper. James Martin, SJ. Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the... -
Reviews: The Devil and Pierre Gernet & Dickens, Christianity and ‘The Life of Our Lord’
Posted on 09/03/2013 | No CommentsDavid 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 for his works of non-fiction, including The Beauty of the Infinite and Atheist Delusions, but The Devil...
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