Francis Schaeffer is one of the giants of 20th century evangelicalism. He founded the L’Abri Fellowship and helped to forge the alliance between American Christianity and political conservatism.
Frank Schaeffer, his son, is another story.
Frank began his career working for his father, but lived to turn on the movement Francis had created. He converted to Greek [...]
Tags: Christian conservatism, Christian freedom, Frank Schaeffer
In the next few days, you may expect several interesting new posts: (1. a proposal regarding theological criticism of films; (2. a post about aspects of the genetic fallacy; (3. a fairly extensive review of Bruegemann’s Old Testament Theology.
I will also be announcing an important and exciting change for The Veil Away — not the [...]
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That delicious three week holiday is almost upon us. What will you be reading? These are my plans:
Dan Simmons’s Hyperion trilogy (aloud, with my fiancee)—it is, in my opinion, the greatest science fiction trilogy of all time.
Charles Taylor’s Hegel.
William James’s Collected Works.
Walter Bruegemann’s Old Testament Theology.
Aristotle’s Physics.
Tags: aristotle, charles taylor, christmas, hegel, hyperion, old testament theology, physics, science fiction trilogy, simmons, william james
To the Lighthouse is a profoundly convicting book. As we follow Virginia Woolf on her whirlwind tour through the consciousnesses of her characters, I imagine that all of us will get stuck identifying with a particular character. She lures us into identification by attractively presenting the internal monologue of that character—in my case, the single-minded [...]
Tags: graduate school, internal monologue, lighthouse, moral education, Mr. Ramsay, ramsay, tutelage, virginia woolf, voracious readers
Today I was reading Thomas of Celano’s First and Second Lives of Saint Francis, when I came across a strangely moving section.
Trucking along in his typically hagiographic style, Thomas asserts that “the humility of the incarnation and the love of the passion so occupied” Francis’s memory that “he scarcely wished to think of anything else. [...]
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In some ways, Chapter 5 of Siedell’s God in the Gallery, entitled “Art Criticism” is prescriptively central to the book. One of Siedell’s foremost desires for concrete change involves replacing the Schaefferian and Rookmakerian vision of the Christian artist with a robust general engagement by Christians of art as it is. He argues that we [...]
Tags: art criticism, art world, biblical narrative, christian art, christian artist, christians, concrete change, contemporary art, Daniel Siedell, desires, god, God in the Gallery, liturgy, provocative ideas, sacrament, sacramentality, spiritual power, transformative
Is it disrespectful (or perhaps merely amateurish) to talk about why we enjoy certain kinds of inquiry? Or is it bad form these days to treat study, like meals, as a source of pleasure as well as a regimen or diet? I enjoy theology, philosophy, literature, and music. I also have certain overweaning impulses to [...]
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