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Holly Ordway

Holly Ordway is Professor of English and faculty in the MA in Apologetics at Houston Baptist University; she holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Not God’s Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms (Ignatius, 2014) and Imaginative Apologetics (Emmaus Road, 2017). Her current book project is Tolkien’s Modern Sources: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages (Kent State University Press, 2019).

apologetics, Articles, Imagination, Theology15/05/2017<15/05/2017

Looking Along the Beam: Apologetics and the Christian Imagination

Author’s Note: This post is adapted from material in Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith, Emmaus Road Publishing,…

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Articles, Imaginative Apologetics, Inklings, Literature17/06/2015<16/06/2015

The Canary in the Coal Mine? Thoughts on Allegory

Teaching allegory is always a bit of an uphill battle. I used to think that allegory was difficult for students because they simply weren’t…

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Imagination, Imaginative Apologetics06/06/2014<05/06/2014

Visiting Scholar Series: Imagination and Reason

Imagination and reason: how do they relate to each other? Working in the field of cultural apologetics, and specifically in imaginative and literary apologetics,…

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Poetry, Poetry Symposium, Theology11/09/2013<06/09/2013

Reversals: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Starlight Night”

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things…

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Beauty, Church, Theology25/04/2013<21/04/2013

Worship and Identity: The Role of Beauty in the Church

A church service may look like a gathering of very ordinary people – with all our sins and weaknesses – but that is just…

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Aesthetics & Liturgy, Theology02/10/2012<08/10/2012

The Sign of the Cross: Participatory Aesthetics

Dr. Holly Ordway is Chair of the Department of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, and is the author of Not God’s Type: A Rational…

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