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Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth
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Douglas Wilson (Goodreads Author),
Douglas Jones
Christianity presents a glorious vision of culture, a vision overflowing with truth, beauty, and goodness. It's a vision that stands in stark conflict with the anemic modern (and postmodern) perspectives that dominate contemporary life. Medieval Christianity began telling a beautiful story about the good life, but it was silenced in mid-sentence. The Reformation rescued tr...more
Paperback, 221 pages
Published
November 1st 1998
by Canon Press
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Jacob Aitken
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Angels in the Architecture (AA) is a bold, magnificent book. And when it is wrong in factual assertions, it is magnificently wrong. Ok, seriously. The authors propose against the stale, bloody worldview of modernity a rich, robust *paleo* medieval worldview rooted in Protestant Theology. My review will come from a number of angles.
*What if Tolkien were a Calvinist?*
The subtitle suggests Tolkienesque themes. But isn't the subtitle contradictory? Tolkien was a *Catholic!* Well, stay with me for ...more
*What if Tolkien were a Calvinist?*
The subtitle suggests Tolkienesque themes. But isn't the subtitle contradictory? Tolkien was a *Catholic!* Well, stay with me for ...more
Devan
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Recommends it for:
Calvinists, Augustinians, political philosophy geeks
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political-philosophy
While the current trend in theology - particularly cut of the recent Anabaptist and/or emerging cloth - is to view Christendom and Constantine as evils of the highest order, Wilson and Jones make the case that modernism has bankrupted itself as well in its rejection of medieval virtues.
Most importantly, they set out a vision of Christendom - the City of God - as one built upon the culmination of principles that were developed in the medieval period but were not given their fullest e...more
Most importantly, they set out a vision of Christendom - the City of God - as one built upon the culmination of principles that were developed in the medieval period but were not given their fullest e...more
This book presents an amazing series of essays on what Christian culture has looked like at its highest points (through events, literature, doctrines, etc.), as well as presents a vision for the future of Christendom. It delighted my heart to read it, and the essays don't get old the second or third time around. Fantastic!
A collected re-working of numerous articles originally published by the two authors in Credenda Agenda which explore how the modern, evangelical church could learn and benefit from the best which our medieval forebears have to offer. Great stuff.
Craig Olson
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I have not read the book yet, I have just scanned the reviews. It appears to me that this book may have some substance. I am so tired of all the pablum purveyed by the mega-church leaders and populist preachers. If it is like The Casual Christian, I really want to read it.
Out of many great books, only a few (perhaps in anyone's life) can earn the designation "life changing." This was one for me. Sketches a vision of the Good Life, described in the evocative and paradoxical phrase "Medieval Protestantism." Must Read.
A true paradigm-shifter. The Dougs go through the various aspects of culture and explain how those aspects would look under the influence of a fully-orbed, whimsical Christianity. I try to read this one every year.
Have read this four times now. Really shook my understanding of what a comprehensive Christian World-view looks like - encompassing all of life. Have not read any other Christian book like it.
By far one of the best books I have ever read - excellent call to a review of our post-modern protestantism and bring about reformation and rethinking...
This is a great book that outlines what a Christian culture would look like. The Doug's (Wilson and Jones) argue that the Middle Ages, instead of our perception of them as "Dark," are in fact the best model of what how Christianity would manifest itself culturally. They take it further, though, acknowledging where the medieval's fell short.
This is radical stuff, the kind of culture that most evangelicals are unprepared for, and certainly not the kind of culture the modern w...more
This is radical stuff, the kind of culture that most evangelicals are unprepared for, and certainly not the kind of culture the modern w...more
Absolutely breath-taking. Some books can ruin you by revealing how petty you really were before reading it. This book is a beautiful ruination. Literary, witty, intelligent, it splashes in waters above all of our heads and reveals a vision for what Christianity once was, and what it will be again.
So that's what Christian culture is supposed to look like...now that makes much more sense.
An attractive vision of a Christian culture, loosely formed around the strengths of Mediaevalism.
Fascinating insights about Beauty as an absolute and how it is revealed in our worldview.
Gold.
Outstanding.
A great book for recovering the "full-orbed" gospel, as it is often called. This means recovering and turning back to and treasuring beauty, the church, feasting, authority, wife and children, and more. Deep gratitude for all the gifts God has given us in this world was at the heart of the Reformation, but quickly lost by many. Medieval life actually assumed many important things that were lost in the Enlightenment. This book calls us back to them.
Read James Davison Hunter's "To Change the World," and then read this book. The two compliment each other in amazing ways...!
Warm and insightful.
What a great book! Wilson and Jones are really engaging writers, and punch modernism in the face numerous times in this one. I thought I ridden myself of chronological snobbery, but this book revealed I have a long way to go. The Middle Ages don't look quite the same, and neither does my theology.
Rereading this one has been a great reorientation away from things that very easily distract from the whole point of eternal life, which is, of course, living.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver (Proverbs 25:11). This book is as mind-bending as Against Christianity.
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