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Review: Reforming Hollywood
Posted on 03/11/2012 | No CommentsWilliam D. Romanowski. Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, xv + 298 pp., £18.99/$29.95 cloth. In this thorough, fact-filled account of the interaction between Protestantism and the American cinema, William D.... -
Review: The Poet as Believer
Posted on 21/09/2012 | 3 CommentsAidan Nichols. The Poet as Believer: A Theological Study of Paul Claudel. Surrey: Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts, 2011. 275 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-2685-1. In Aidan Nichols’ review of the life and works of Paul Claudel, he succeeds... -
Review: Imagination and the Playfulness of God
Posted on 17/08/2012 | 1 CommentRobin Stockitt, Imagination and the Playfulness of God: The Theological Implications of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Definition of the Human Imagination (Eugene,OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011). 179 pages. In The Imagination and the Playfulness of God, Robin Stockitt undertakes both a theology of the human... -
Review: A Key to Balthasar
Posted on 13/08/2012 | 3 CommentsAidan Nichols. A Key to Balthasar: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2011. 144 pp. ISBN: 978-0232528589. With ambitious effort, Aidan Nichols’ publication A Key to Balthasar condenses into four chapters the major terms... -
Review: Imaginative Apologetics
Posted on 10/08/2012 | No CommentsAndrew Davison (ed). Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition. 2011. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. In his Introduction, Andrew Davison unpacks the title and gives shape to the collection. He notes: The approach to apologetics offered... -
Review: Translating Truth
Posted on 20/06/2012 | No CommentsAden Kumler, Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011). 290 pages. In Theology and the Arts, Richard Viladesau asserts that art can function in two ways... -
Review: Do the Gods Wear Capes?
Posted on 11/05/2012 | 7 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...
