A provocative defense of one of the bogeymen of Christian intellectual histories: the Romantic poets.
Anthony Cirilla
Like the Days of the Tree: The Other Voice of Allegory in Tolkien’s Artistic Reflections
Tolkien seemingly had harsh things to say about allegory. But is there more to it?
Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure: A Review
Critics still wrestle with disentangling Freud from the reading of Wordsworth.
Entering the Temple: George Herbert’s “Church-porch” and Liturgical Poetics
How does George Herbert prepare the heart for worship with poetry?
God’s Glory in Golden Daffodils
Anthony Cirilla previews on upcoming Spring 2023 Davenant Hall course on William Wordsworth.
Prudentius and the Sanctified Muse
How the author of “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” drew the best pagan poetics into service of Christ.
Boethius: Philosopher of Imagination
Boethius show us how to prepare our imaginations for troubled times.
The Upraised Eye: Coleridge’s Theology of Poetic Perception
Is imagination opposed to reason, or in fact essential to its proper use?
Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life: A Review
A thorough exploration of Jordan Peterson’s fascinating and frustrating relationship with Christianity.
Identity and the Life of the Mind: The Eternal Value of Boethius
Boethius provides powerful resources for contemplating how knowledge relates to identity formation in the Christian life.