By Nathan Mason Top: Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, about 1570. El Greco. Minneapolis Institute of Art Above: Pieta, about 1578-85. El Greco. Wikimedia Commons Below: The Vision of St. John, about 1609-14. El Greco. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bottom: The Penitent Magdalene, about 1577. El Greco. Worcester Art Museum The Art Institute … [Read more...] about Window to a Spiritual World
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Advent’s Radical Prophet
“William Blake” at the Tate Britain Museum, Millbank, London. Until February 2, 2020. By Mark Michael London’s Tate Britain Museum lies just a few steps from the Pimlico tube stop, bordering some of the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods. But I’d suggest approaching its massive “William Blake” exhibition, as I did, by alighting at Westminster, and walking alongside the … [Read more...] about Advent’s Radical Prophet
Hill Responds to N.T. Wright
Wesley Hill, assistant professor of biblical studies at Trinity School for Ministry, writes for EerdWord, the weblog of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.: N.T. Wright has written a review of my book Paul and the Trinity for which I am grateful. Every junior scholar appreciates when a more senior figure in the field takes notice of his or her work, especially when that figure is … [Read more...] about Hill Responds to N.T. Wright
Reading Radner: Part 3
Cæli enarrant The seventh and eighth chapters of Ephraim Radner’s Brutal Unity press further into “the spiritual politics of the Christian Church” with special attention to conscience as a category and a problem. The Living Church published an excerpt from chapter seven, Radner’s account of Henri of Navarre’s “sacrifice of conscience” (Oct. 7, 2012), with further reflections … [Read more...] about Reading Radner: Part 3
Reading Radner: Part 2
Cæli enarrant If, when you read Ephraim Radner’s Brutal Unity, you find yourself thinking that the first three chapters were especially difficult, you will be right. They laid much of the theological foundation for what follows, and the third chapter is especially dense. Persevere. It grows easier as Radner moves to a theological situation of the politics of the Church — … [Read more...] about Reading Radner: Part 2