Hermeneutics Theory

Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part I (Kevin Lewis)

The following is the first part in a two-part installment. Biblical hermeneutics, studied reflection upon interpretation of scriptural passages, has not remained static in method or approach over the centuries. It has manifestly evolved in response to evolving cultural forces generally, as the needs and opportunities of Christian communities have changed and changed again over […]

Religion and Literature

Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)

The following is the second installment of a three-part series.  The first one can be found here. Used by Auden in concert with “limitation” to qualify boundaries proper to secular aesthetics in modernity, the term “absurd” in its Kierkegaardian sense implies another precinct against which art and the artist will necessarily chafe in nonreligious domains […]

Religion and Literature

Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 1 (Raji Singh Soni)

The following is part one of an article that will be published in three successive installments. TRINCULO   Servant-monster! The folly of this island! They say there’s but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if th’other two be brained like us, the state totters.[1] In the expanse of scholarship on W.H. Auden’s oeuvre, […]