How Christianity came to Latin America: Extract from ‘New Worlds’ by John Lynch
With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch’s New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native people and how it influenced their social and religious lives, from the Christian evangelists’ arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. In this exclusive extract, Lynch … Read more
Art as Parable? Provocative new Yale book provides theological readings of secular art
Yesterday Yale University Press published Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenge of Art, a book which is bound to provoke debate within the art history community. We take a look at this fascinating book, which provides theological readings of great secular works of art, and challenges the establishment notion that spirituality and religion were becoming increasingly irrelevant in art … Read more
David Bentley Hart wins the Michael Ramsey prize for ‘Atheist Delusions’
David Bentley Hart’s provocative book Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies has won the Michael Ramsey Prize, which was awarded at the Hay Festival on Friday by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The £10,000 Michael Ramsey Prize is a biennial award that aims to encourage promising contemporary theological writing and to identify it for a … Read more
Easter Reading from Yale
Yale University Press presents a wide variety of books for the Easter period, looking at Christian art, history and architecture. For those of the Christian faith Easter is a hugely significant time of the year. Today we’re looking at a number of recently-published Yale books that examine the history of the faith, but also the … Read more
Author Article by Charles Freeman: The Sacred Flesh of the Saints
In his newly published book Holy Bones, Holy Dust, CHARLES FREEMAN presents a full-scale history of medieval relics. Here he explores the forgotten medieval concept of ‘spiritual flesh’, a sacred form of human flesh possessed by dead saints that was believed to be impervious to decay. Freeman discusses the intense belief surrounding this idea, and … Read more
