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The Spiritual Adventure of Henri Matisse

Charles Miller, The Spiritual Adventure of Henri Matisse, Vence’s Chapel of the Rosary, Unicorn Publishing Group 2024 232 pp £27 This is a beautiful book, both physically and in its content. Unicorn has provided the spacious format and excellent photographic reproduction essential for the telling of a story in which drawing, colour and spatial awareness express “the spiritual adventure”…

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Jeremy Lockhart Nelson, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Amazon, pp201, £12 The Australian poet Jeremy Lockhart Nelson, now in his ninety-first year, has published one-hundred-and-sixteen poems under the title Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. Nelson has followed the poet’s vocation since he was sixteen and has over the years published poems in many magazines and journals, mainly in Australia. Some poems remain unpublished in the…

Music and Faith

Jonathan Arnold, Music and Faith: conversations in a post-secular age, The Boydell Press, 2019 £30 This book offers a reflection on the state of sacred music in secular Western Europe, a mosaic of opinion constructed from conversation with a variety of writers, artists, scientists, historians, atheists, church laity and clergy. The term “post-secular” emerges as a description of the relationship between faith,…

Making Sense of Things

Paul Burt, Making Sense of Things through the lens of Christian Belief, Amazon Fulfilment 2023, pp162 This is an intelligent book by a man who has been a school chaplain, a parish priest and a chaplain to seamen. The breadth of his pastoral experience is reflected in the range of his reading and its application to…

My Campaign in Ireland Part II

My Campaign in Ireland Part II: My Connection with the Catholic University. EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY PAUL SHRIMPTON. Newman Millennium Edition Volume XVII. London: Gracewing Press, 2022. cxv + 544 pages. Hardback: £35. ISBN 978 085244 966 0. My Campaign in Ireland Part I documents Newman’s educational principles and his practical plans…

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