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“A Medium for Meeting God”: C. S. Lewis and Music (Especially Wagner)

This essay will survey Lewis’s writings and outline the development of his aesthetic ideas in relation to music, emphasizing his enjoyment of Wagner and explaining nuanced references to Wagner throughout Lewis’s works. Moreover, this essay will describe how Lewis’s ideas about God advanced in counterpoint to his ideas about music and how Lewis eventually came…
October 15, 2019
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A Framework for Digital Wisdom in Higher Education

Institutions of higher education have a crucial role and responsibility at this moment of technological change to form people who will flourish in our so-called digital age. The speed with which digital information and communication technologies have permeated our lives has left little time for critical reflection on how we may intentionally integrate them into…
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Redemptive Rehabilitation: Theological Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

In this article, we will attempt to build a multi-dimensional vision of rehabilitation, based in Christian understandings of human nature, redemption, and community. By first exploring what rehabilitation means and why it is important, we will then survey three models of restoration and rehabilitation which can be instituted as programs offered within the incarceration system…
Reviews

Can We Trust the Gospels?

Reviewed by Clark Bates, Fellow at the Text and Canon Institute, Phoenix Seminary Can We Trust the Gospels? is a concise, compelling and erudite compilation of multiple lines of evidence intended to demonstrate the reliability of the four New Testament Gospels, and ultimately the rationality of the Christian faith. At a brief 140 pages, the…
October 15, 2019
Extended Review

Balm in Gilead—An Extended Review

Michael Vander Weele is Professor of English Emeritus at Trinity Christian College. If you looked up this review, chances are good that you will want to read this collection of essays for yourself—unless you have not read anything by Marilynne Robinson yet, in which case do that first. When I read page 128, part of…
October 15, 2019
Book Review

Music, Theology, and Justice

Music, Theology, and Justice is a thought-provoking collection of case studies which invite the reader to contemplate how, when, and why music and musical practices are used to address the tension we feel between, in the words of contributor Don Saliers, “the world as it is and the world as it ought to be” (197,…
Extended Review

Anthropocene as Creator, Gaia as Creature

The title of this review essay should challenge Christians as much as Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia challenges nearly everything about modern society. Humanity has created a planet that is reacting very unfavorably toward its makers. Latour’s challenge—or rather, Gaia’s—is first to our belief that we are rational and second that our profound irrationality generates collective…
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“A Set Mind, Blessed by Doubt”: Phenomenologies of Misperception in Frost, Wilbur, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty

This essay interprets poems by Robert Frost and Richard Wilbur alongside illustrative anecdotes from philosophical works by Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The four texts have in common the attention they give to the human misperception of phenomena. Considered together, they make the case that occasional misperception is not a defeater for ordinary human confidence…
William Tate
July 15, 2019