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David Bentley Hart’s Prophetic New Testament Translation and America’s Heresies

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

The New Testament: A Translation by David Bentley Hart My rating: 4 of 5 stars It is a little awkward to provide a star-rating for a Bible, but I am thinking here of the translation by David Bentley Hart. I … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links, Reviews | Tagged American evangelicalism, Bible, Bible translation, David Bentley Hart, evangelical, Greek, King James Bible, N.T. Wright, New Testament, theology | 19 Comments

What Counts as an Old Book? A Response by Dale Nelson

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

This is a response to “What Counts as a Classic? A Conversation with C. S. Lewis and Goodreads,” a blog post I wrote on 18 Dec. 2018 centred on images like the one above. There was quite a conversation that … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs | Tagged Arthuriana, Bible, C.S. Lewis, canon, Cultural Capital, Dale Nelson, Harold Bloom, John Guillory, literature, The Western Canon, University | 35 Comments

C.S. Lewis in The Christian Century

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Last year I introduced an occasional feature I call “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own vault or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Throwback Thursdays | Tagged apologetics, Bible, Christianity Today, evangelicalism, God in the Dock, Letters to Malcolm, liberal Christianity, Pittenger, Reflection on the Psalms, Reflections on the Psalms, Reinhold Niebuhr, The Christian Century, The Screwtape Letters, theology, W.H. Auden | 17 Comments

Stephen King on the Supernatural

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

On Tuesday I spent time thinking about my Stickin’ Huge Awesome Novel Winter Awesome Read (SHANWAR) read for 2017, Stephen King’s The Stand. As the snows of winter pen me in, I want a big, long, great book that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged 'Salem's Lot, Anne Rice, Bible, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carpe Jugulum, Charlene Harris, Charles Williams, Dead Until Dark, fantasy, Science Fiction, Stephen King, Supernatural Fiction, Terry Pratchett, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Stand, Theology of Culture, True Blood, vampires, writing | 28 Comments

A Call for a Silmarillion Talmud

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

Though we live in a digital age, we are sometimes artificially constrained by older technologies. Like modern cars and trains that are largely designed according to the size of Roman cart paths, our reading is still shaped by a time … Continue reading →