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Title: Angels in the Architecture by Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson, Doug Wilson ISBN: 1-885767-40-4 Publisher: Canon Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: I don't want to be preached to!
Comment: While reading this book, I felt that I was being preached to.. that I wasn't a good Christian if I didn't have children or find a church to belong to, or if I allowed the State to rule me. I had to read the book for a Medieval Chritianity class, and really, there wasn't much medival information, other than to quote medival figures. I was hoping for a book that would show how the Medival people did things in order to show their love for God..not just the occasional aside about them.
Rating: 5
Summary: A grass-roots cultural vision
Comment: Anyone who has read or heard material produced by the Dougs (Wilson and Jones) of Canon Press can appreciate their contributions and insight to the discussions within the evangelical church. However, it is their thoughts and scholarly work on the pursuit of the full, Christian life where they are at their best. What Angels in the Architecture suggests is nothing short of revolutionary. Not an Oliver-Cromwell-meets-Paul-Revere type of revolution, but a much more insidious revolution that spans the distance of even centuries. It is the kind of revolution whose battlefields are the family gathered for dinner, the place where the rod meets the rump, an author's godly and submissive inspirations, the church gathered for the Lord's supper. Christian medievalism must be a grass-roots revolution, calling for faithfulness and generational patience in Christ's body. The Dougs teach us that we must stand on the broad shoulders of our godly church traditions and begin to think and feel the rhythmns of truth, beauty, and goodness before the face of God. Our culture must be transformed, so we must see the urgency and the opportunites that surround us. The Protestant Reformation may have preserved God's truth, but we must synthesize reformational truth with the glorious cultural visions of our medieval fathers. In Angels in the Architecture, Jones and Wilson have broken the ice. Now we must see how deep the water goes.
Rating: 5
Summary: The good life. But prove it!
Comment: This book is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. My soul simply aches after reading anything in it. I especially enjoyed the chapter Wine Dark Sea, and its analysis of ancient pagan art. Wilson claims that Jesus Christ has overthrown that regime, and the only beauty available to us now is through Him. Even non-Christians, in producing works of great art, must do so in reference to Christianity.
However, there is one major flaw in this book, though perhaps the authors never intended to address this issue. That flaw is this: the authors make the claim that the Medieval times were times when truth, beauty, and goodness were defining charateristics. It's fine to make that claim, but there is no proof of it in the book that I can see. I _want_ to believe it simply because I see no beauty whatsoever in modernity or post-modernity. I want to believe them, yet I know next to nothing about the Medieval times. It seems to me that the authors might very profitably spend some time supporting their claim that the Medieval period was everything they claim it was. Or perhaps they have already done that, and haven't produced the evidence of their work. In either case, I want to see the proof!
You've whetted my appetite, now satisfy it!
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Title: Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series) by Doug Wilson, Douglas Wilson ISBN: 0891075836 Publisher: Good News Pub Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Plowing In Hope: Toward a Biblical Theology of Culture by David B. Hegeman, David Bruce Hegeman ISBN: 1885767633 Publisher: Canon Press Pub. Date: 08 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Praise Her in the Gates: The Calling of Christian Motherhood by Nancy Wilson ISBN: 1885767706 Publisher: Canon Press Pub. Date: 20 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Future Men by Douglas Wilson ISBN: 1885767838 Publisher: Canon Press Pub. Date: 07 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000 by Iain Hamish Murray, Ian H. Murray ISBN: 0851517838 Publisher: Banner of Truth Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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