Category: Reviews

Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, Penguin, 2017 (342 pp. plus end material including index) This is a valuable book: it is the best […]

In 1910, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson published an interesting but under-rated book, Non Catholic Denominations (Longmans, Green and Co., London). This text is available at https://archive.org/stream/tnoncatholicdenom00bensuoft/tnoncatholicdenom00bensuoft_djvu.txt I think that people […]

Having said something about Chesterton, in the first part of this review, it is time to turn to the book. It is arranged in nine chapters with a conclusion: first, […]

Aidan Nichols, G.K. Chesterton, Theologian, Darton, Longman and Todd, London (209 pp. bibliography but no index) This is the first part of a multi-part series. I am going to first […]

A Time to Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Queen Anne Press, 1953 (reprinted  with additions, Penguin, 1982) This is Fermor’s account of his visit to two monasteries, and one burial […]

In 1845, Patrick Fairbairn, Professor of Divinity at the Free Church College, Glasgow, published a massive two-volume work, The Typology of Scripture Viewed in Connection with the Whole Series of […]

Further to my favourable review of Stephen Prothero’s American Jesus, it might be useful to consider how the “American Jesus” came to be. The idea of the Lord as a […]

American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, Stephen Prothero; Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 2003 (364 pp., including index) In one of several enlightening passages, […]

Robert Hugh Benson, The Queen’s Tragedy, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London, 1906 (382 pages) This much under-rated novel, was written just after The King’s Achievement. It is basically a […]