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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... -
Review: Christ to Coke
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... -
Review: Pay the Musick by The King/Cave Project
Posted on 02/03/2012 | 1 CommentJames Cave and Ewan King are not names with which I was familiar before hearing their recent album, Pay the Musick. That isn’t to say they are unknown; they have appeared at Greenbelt, established a presence on the London jazz... -
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). -
Review: The Liturgical Year
Posted on 25/11/2011 | 1 CommentJoan Chittister, Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life, Thomas Nelson: Nashville, 2009. The Liturgical Year is part of the The Ancient Practices Series from Thomas Nelson. The books in this series explore different aspects of Christian practice including fasting, 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,...
