Review: Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture
Keith L. Johnson and Timothy Larsen, eds. Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2013, 208 pp., £12.99/$20.00, paper. The question of ‘Christ…
The Narrative Imagination: Resourcing Reception Pneumatology
In this post I want to suggest Pentecostal/Charismatic spiritualities find ways of keeping the narrative imagination at play in worship and theology by embodying…
Aesthetics as Concealment [and]/or Disclosure
Following up an earlier post, “The Imagination between Beauty and Goodness,” in which I discussed how the imagination might help bring the values of beauty and…
The Imagination between Beauty and Goodness
In Visual Faith, William Dyrness entertains two questions concerning the uncomfortable, and at times awkward, relationship between beauty and goodness. The first: “Do pursuits…
Listening Beyond Consensus: A Receptive Disposition
In this post I want to suggest a way in which film can utilize what C.S. Lewis called “the narrative qualities of the [in…
Review: Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture
Keith L. Johnson and Timothy Larsen, eds. Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2013, 208 pp., £12.99/$20.00, paper. The question of ‘Christ…
“The End Is Not Yet”: Learning to Live an “After” life in Popular Culture
In this post, I want to offer several thoughts on the way in which popular culture imagines the challenges of a post-life; first, with…