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A Reflection on the Canticle of Zechariah
The following is a reflection on the Canticle of Zechariah (Luke 2:68–79), which one says as part of Morning Prayer. The meditation proceeds line by line, and usually phrase by phrase. It is based on the Latin, which I wanted … Continue reading
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Darwin’s Pious Idea
Conor Cunningham, Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010. xx + 543. Reviewed by Norm Klassen. Introduction This is an important book. It models a Christian engagement of biology that thoroughly … Continue reading
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Five Smooth Stones: Towards a mystical theology of nature and grace
Introduction: The transformation of stones In the past few postings, I have been approaching the theology of nature and grace through Anglicans: John Milbank first, who explicitly outlines contemporary theology’s indebtedness to Catholicism; then Rowan Williams, a wonderful expositor of … Continue reading
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Lewis for Our Times: Principles of Cultural Apologetics in the Writings of Rowan Williams
In a posting of several months ago (“Romantic Orthodoxy, Militant Atheism, and a Question of Style,” December 27, 2010), I suggested that Rowan Williams models an attractive style of Christian engagement of secular culture. Here I would like to flesh … Continue reading
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The Thomistic Challenge of C.S. Lewis’s Sermon “Learning in War-time”
Introduction Any Christian who aspires to be a student faces two great temptations: the belief that their studies must “add up” to something or that their creative power, either to redescribe or to expose and “deconstruct,” is absolute. Often these … Continue reading
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The Perils of (post)Postmodernism and the Joy of Incarnational Humanism
An ecumenical address for Huron University College and St. Peter’s Seminary, London, Ontario Introduction Anyone interested in engaging contemporary culture for the sake of advancing a timely Christian apologetic, as you undoubtedly are, has for some time had to wrestle … Continue reading
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Romantic Orthodoxy, Militant Atheism, and a Question of Style
In a recent article, “The New Divide: Romantic versus Classical Orthodoxy,” Modern Theology 26 (2010), the Anglican theologian John Milbank, has identified a new divide between “romantic” and “classical” orthodoxy, one which replaces the older divide between theological orthodoxy and … Continue reading
The Wound of Knowledge
Rowan Williams, The Wound of Knowledge, 2nd rev. ed., London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1990. The title of this spiritually nourishing and academically challenging book its author draws from the poetry of R.S. Thomas. The Wound of Knowledge offers us … Continue reading
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When Marxists Defend Christians
Terry Eagleton is a literary theorist and cultural critic, someone who reflects on the nature of literature, what it accomplishes in individuals, reading communities, and culture, as well as how various forces (from the psychological to the political) shape it. … Continue reading
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