Tag Archives: philosophy

My Unblurbed Blurb of Charlie Starr’s The Lion Country

Posted on October 9, 2024 by

As I am between steps in the publication of a book about C.S. Lewis’s thought, I find myself coming back to my bookshelf with a bit of mental space. I have been following Charlie W. Starr’s work for almost as … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Charlie Starr, literature, myth, Narnia, philosophy, The Faun's Bookshelf, The Lion's Country, The Screwtape Letters, writing | 2 Comments

Mark Vernon’s “A Secret History of Christianity,” review by Wesley Schantz (On Owen Barfield)

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Review of A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness, by Mark Vernon A guest post from Wesley Schantz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars For purposes of calibration or, if you like, conversion, … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs, Reviews | Tagged A Secret History of Christianity, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Vernon, On Fairy-Stories, owen barfield, philosophy, Splintered Light, Surprised by Joy, The Discarded Image, Verlyn Flieger, William Blake | 42 Comments

On Being a Digital Leopard Frog, or Living Among the Digital Natives (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

This summer 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 an … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughtful Essays, Throwback Thursdays | Tagged culture, digital immigrants, digital natives, frogs, leopard frog, luddites, philosophy, social media, technology, Theology of Culture | 7 Comments

Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age as a Background to Study of C.S. Lewis

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Charles Taylor has been called the leading philosopher of today. If narrowed to the questions of religion, the self, and human experience, the claim has some grounding. For students in theology, religious studies, modern intellectual history, or the philosophy of … Continue reading →

Posted in Original Research, Reviews, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged A Secular Age, C.S. Lewis, Charles Taylor, Dom Bede Griffiths, Elizabeth Anscombe, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Augusta Ward, Matthew Arnold, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Oxford, philosophy, religion, Robert Elsmere, theology, Theology of Culture | 19 Comments

The Problem of Good: Thinking about God and Evil with “The Giver”

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

One of the great questions that fixes the attention of thinkers in our generation about the existence of God is the Problem of Evil. The argument is so simple it is almost sublime. I summarize the argument here in this … Continue reading →