Culture and Religion
Books on the intersection between religion and culture, including literature, art, design, film and television.
Sense and Spirituality:
The Arts and Spiritual Formation
By James McCullough
An exploration of the arts as a catalyst to spiritual growth, and a theology of aesthetics built on the dynamic between artistic appreciation and spirituality.
ISBN: 9780718894177
ISBN: 9780718844431
Storied Revelations:
Parables, Imagination and George MacDonald's Christian Fiction
By Gisela H. Kreglinger
A study of how the Victorian poet and theologian George MacDonald reimagined the spiritually transforming language of the parable for a 19th-century audience.
ISBN: 9780718893293
ISBN: 9780718842147
Theatrical Theology:
Explorations in Performing the Faith
By Wesley Vander Lugt and Trevor Hart (editors)
A collection of essays exploring the ways in which theatre and drama provide conceptual models of use to a growing number of theologians.
ISBN: 9780718893842
ISBN: 9780718843533
ISBN: 9780718843519
TheoMedia:
The Media of God and the Digital Age
By Andrew Byers
An examination of modern digital media through the lens of biblical theology, showing the importance of the biblical media of God amid a digital culture.
ISBN: 9780718893521
ISBN: 9780718842642
True Myth:
C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell on the Veracity of Christianity
By James W. Menzies
A comparison of the role of myth in understanding Christianity, comparing C.S. Lewis's literal reading with Joseph Campbell's symbolic approach.
ISBN: 9780718893767
ISBN: 9780718843410
The Truest Fairy Tale:
An Anthology of the Religious Writings of G.K. Chesterton
By Kevin Morris (editor)
An anthology of G.K. Chesterton's religious writing, offering a sometime surprising synthesis of Chesterton's view of the essence of Christianity.
ISBN: 9780718830618
The Universe is Indifferent:
Theology, Philosophy and Mad Men
By Ann W. Duncan and Jacob L. Goodson (editors)
A collection of essays exploring the theological, philosophical and social issues raised by the American television series Mad Men.
ISBN: 9780718895181
ISBN: 9780718847333
The Visual Theology of the Huguenots:
Towards an Architectural Iconology of Early Modern French Protestantism, 1535 to 1623
By Randal Carter Working
An exploration of the influence of Reformed theology on the spatial aesthetic of the French Huguenots, revealing its contribution to the classical revival.
ISBN: 9780718894696
ISBN: 9780718845384
When the Eternal Can Be Met:
The Bergsonian Theology of Time in the Works of C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden
By Corey Latta
A study of the influence of the French philosopher Henri Bergson's theory of time on the works of three of the great Christian writers of the 20th century.
ISBN: 9780718893606
ISBN: 9780718842727
Words of Power:
Reading Shakespeare and the Bible
By Jem Bloomfield
A study of two major icons of Anglophone culture – the Bible and Shakespeare – exploring the treatment of canonicity, interpretation and appropriation.
ISBN: 9780718894139
ISBN: 9780718844370
