Review: Hoping Against Hope
byJohn D. Caputo. Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 2015, 214pp. $14.99 paperback. My thesis advisor has a consistent…
Criticism and Philosophy
Review: Culture and the Death of God
byTerry Eagleton, Culture and the Death of God, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2014, pgs. 208 $19.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20399-8 Terry Eagleton…
Expressive Individualism: The Cult of the Artist as Genius and Milton’s Lucifer
byOur culture is, whether we know it or not, a Romantic culture, indeed, a revolutionary culture, that is, one predicated on the rejection of…
Beautiful Structures: Gadamer on Beauty, Love, Faith, and the Nature of Value
byWhen Gadamer directed his attention to the topic of beauty in his celebrated 1977 essay The Relevance of the Beautiful, he was turning back…
Keeping the Gospel Pure?: Christianity in the Midst of Cultures
byChristianity has always been at the crossroads of various cultures. At a time in history when globalization and multiculturalism are quickly becoming the norm,…
Welcoming the Stranger: Art, Worship and the Church
byMany Christians today have embraced the arts, and other cultural forms, as arenas for apologetics and evangelism. The arts are a medium through which…
Courting Camp: An Everyday Aesthetic
byWhen postmodernity marked the “aestheticization” of reality, the lines between high and low culture collapsed and a sensibility devoted to seeing the world as…