Tag: modernity
Review: Tolkien’s Modern Reading
Long before the printing press, Solomon complained that “of the making of many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”[1] What would Solomon say in the day of blogs and self-publishing? Yet despite...
Contrary Winds: Tolkien’s Priority of Faith and Family as Presented in Tolkien’s Modern Reading
It is difficult to be immersed in a world of contrary winds and hold steady to one’s course. And...
Modern Art – Is It That Awful?
I caution against categorizing all modern art as ugly before we give it a chance to speak for itself.
Pink Faux Fur
She was tired. Her guru had been filling her with humanistic pressures: “You are enough. You can do all things. You have the gift within. You are all you need.”
Hamlet and the Headless World
As the Scientific Revolution, the Protestant Reformation, and the humanistic Renaissance triggered the cultural shifts that birthed the modern era, Shakespeare placed his inky-cloaked, brooding Prince on the precipice of the brave new modern world.
Reckoning With Death and Dying in a Disenchanted Age: The Christian Reality of the Fear of Death
Whether it occurs consciously or not, death holds sway as the central drama of human existence.
The Groundwork of Secularism: The Gifts of Modernity
The 19th century was a breakthrough period for secularism.
