Romanticism

How We Pray

I often feel great disjunction between my own experience of prayer and what many people say about it—not only in books, but in conversation, in church, and in many other settings. Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2022

The Genius of Wordsworth

by Algis Valiunas

“I wandered lonely as a cloud.” So begins a famous poem of William Wordsworth’s, one that was often taught to schoolchildren back when memorizing poetry was part of education. The poet comes upon “a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils.” The flowers flutter and dance before him, their . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2020

Revolution of the Self

by Carl R. Trueman and Ramona Tausz

An interview with Carl Trueman about The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Continue Reading »

25 Nov 2020

Remembering Zion

by Francesca Aran Murphy

Memory is often a powerful means of awakening the religious sense. Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2018

Romanticism of the “Lost Cause”

by Gregory S. Bucher

The Romanticism of nineteenth-century America provides crucial context for today’s Confederate-monument debates. Continue Reading »

20 Jul 2017

Leaving Riga

by Thomas Pfau

Romanticism: A German Affair by rüdiger safranski northwestern, 376 pages, $35 During the early Romantic era, subjective sentiments and an often solipsistic quest for personal fulfillment began to challenge Enlightenment ideals of rational dialogue. John Keats’s 1817 plea “for a life of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2016

Impoverished Theology

by Gregory Wolfe

Theologians move in two worlds, working not only with the abstract categories of philosophy but also with the highly concrete and often complex literary forms of the Bible. One of the central tasks of biblical theology is to provide a description of God that is compelling as well as truthful. If . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1999