Category Archives: Review

What is the role of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist? Examining the RC position through Lawrence Feingold, The Eucharist (2)

Posted on February 22, 2020 by admin

However, there is one important issue where I am tempted – perhaps mistakenly – not to follow Feingold & Ratzinger. I cannot understand why more is not made in mainstream Catholic theologians I have read of the Eucharistic role of … Continue reading →

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How is the Eucharist a sacrifice? Part One: Examining the RC position through Lawrence Feingold, The Eucharist

Posted on February 17, 2020 by admin

HOW IS THE EUCHARIST A SACRIFICE? PART TWO: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT? School textbooks – especially history ones – can provide a remarkably telling insight into another culture.  For me, as a non-Catholic keen to discover … Continue reading →

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Bentley Hart’s Universalism

Posted on February 1, 2020 by admin

WHY I’M NOT ALTOGETHER WON OVER If Christians really believed what we were supposed to believe about hell, we ‘would be driven ceaselessly around the world in a desperate frenzy of evangelism, seeking to save as many souls from the … Continue reading →

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The Spirit of the Liturgy

Posted on January 14, 2020 by admin

An Evangelical overwhelmed by the Eucharistic theology of Dix and Schmemann (D&S) and all it implies.  That’s my own position.  How I would like to discover a distillation – a ‘sound-bite’ presentation of this theology – simple enough to share … Continue reading →

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Neil MacGregor: Living with the Gods

Posted on November 24, 2018 by admin

MacGregor’s Religion: on Museums and Book-Museums The Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford is a museum like no other.  This is because the interest of this collection of objects from archaic cultures lies at least as much, if not more, in the … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind

Posted on October 23, 2018 by admin

AGAINST BRITISH VALUES: THE REVENGE OF THE RIGHTEOUS MIND Maybe I don’t even belong to this nation (UK) any more ….  Because, no, I couldn’t whole-heartedly claim to endorse the priority apparently accorded to the ‘five fundamentals’ singled out by … Continue reading →

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James Miller: A Better Ten Commandments?

Posted on September 15, 2018 by admin

TEN COMMANDMENTS OF COMMON SENSE ‘Serenity, balance, personal growth, proportion ….’   ‘Yes,’ I say to myself, with some complacency, ‘nothing here that can’t be managed with the aid of a weekly dose of Vipassana meditation’ (the preferred spiritual practice of … Continue reading →

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Reza Aslan: God, a Human History

Posted on August 11, 2018 by admin

PANTHEISM AND CHRISTIANITY: THE PROBLEM WITH ASLAN’S GOD Reza Aslan claims to be a ‘believer’, and his book, entitled God: a human history, charts the stages of his spiritual journey. The funny thing is, I, who would also claim to … Continue reading →

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Terry Eagleton: Radical Sacrifice

Posted on July 20, 2018 by admin

A THEOLOGICAL POLITICS Here, then, I thought, is a book that has long been crying out to be written. In Radical Sacrifice Terry Eagleton seeks to package, for the benefit of his friends of the political Left, two truths, drawn … Continue reading →

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John Gray: 7 Types of Atheism

Posted on June 20, 2018 by admin

JOHN GRAY CONFRONTS A GODLESS WORLD Theisms come in many shapes and sizes, and so, according to John Gray, do atheisms. The title promises a typological classification of the various kinds of atheism.  What the book delivers is an attack … Continue reading →

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