by Norman | Apr 19, 2024 | Culture, Music, Theology
Introduction In 1982, Canadian theologian Douglas John Hall challenged fellow theologians to abandon philosophy as their dialogue partner in favour of an interdisciplinary dialogue.[1] J Richard Middleton and Brian J Walsh took up that challenge suggesting that...
by Norman | Apr 19, 2024 | Church, Signposts, Theology
In her book The Great Emergence, Phyllis Tickle identifies the publication of Darwin’s Origin of the Species and Michael Faraday’s field theory as “without question, the line of demarcation between…”[1] the post-Reformation Church and the Church that is emerging now...
by Norman | Apr 19, 2024 | Art, Culture
Vincent Van Gogh is known as one of the world’s greatest artists, who famously went mad, cut his ear off, allegedly committed suicide and never sold a painting whilst he was alive. That short biography may or may not be true, but it misses the most important aspect of...
by Norman | Apr 19, 2024 | Art, Culture
According to historian Simon Schama, the only two things that you need to know about Caravaggio is that “He made the most powerfully physical Christian art that has ever been painted, and that he killed someone.”[1] He is without doubt, a giant in the history of art,...
by Norman | Apr 19, 2024 | Art, Culture, Signposts
Leonard Cohen died on the 7th of November 2016, and in the days following his death there was a flood of obituary pieces celebrating his life and art. My contribution was posted on social media a few days later, as a personal reflection on the man and the music that...
