Christianity presents a glorious vision for 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 truth, but its modern grandchildren have often ignored the importance of a medieval grasp of the good life. This book sketches a vision of "Medieval Protestantism," a personal and cultural vision that embraces the fullness of Christian truth, beauty, and goodness.
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Douglas Jones is the senior editor of Credenda/Agenda magazine and a senior fellow at New St. Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho. He is the author of the children's books Huguenot Garden, Scottish Seas, and Dutch Color, and a contributor to Back to Basics: Rediscovering the Richness of the Reformed Faith.
Douglas Wilson is pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho, the editor of Credenda/Agenda magazine, and a senior fellow at New St. Andrews College. He is the author of Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning and a contributor to Back to Basics: Rediscovering the Richness of the Reformed Faith.
Douglas Wilson is pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho, the editor of Credenda/Agenda magazine, and a senior fellow at New St. Andrews College. He is the author of Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning and a contributor to Back to Basics: Rediscovering the Richness of the Reformed Faith.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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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!
20 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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This book presents a unique discussion about curtailing modernity's petrifying effects on the soul. It offers what other recent modernity challengers (David Wells, Os Guinsess, etc. ) have missed--what to do about it? The authors' solution is to pick up where midievalism left off at the Reformation, and pursue with abandon the qualities of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness both in and out of the church. The book avoids much of the sarchasim for which the authors have become quite famous, and instead demonstrates the authors' more noble abilities to communicate maturely. The vision of a modern, Reformed, midievalism is bazaar, I know, but one seriously wonders if modernity and postmodernity can be toppled any other way. One warning: Angels in the Acrhitecture will bring the vileness of your own modernity to the surface. If you don't know that it's there already, be sure you're ready for a deep, heart-felt challenge to your very unbeautiful, self-consuming, authority-rejecting, relationship-escaping, trite, non-sovereign God-Worshipping, poetry-loathing, sectarianism-endorsing, Madison Avenue-copying worldview. For those who know they fit this mold, here is the iron mallot to break that mold forever. My fifth star is missing not because I don't believe the book deserves five stars, but because I have of late reserved five star status for fine poetry only.
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Imagine growing up in a Christian church and never experiencing joy...Why? I don't listen to much CCM these days for pretty much the same reason so many grow up in churches without joy: It seems that too many are afraid of life! Somehow, if they experience the joys of God's wonderful creation, it must be wrong...Being so quick to dismiss anything prior to the industrial revolution as antiquated, we have fallen prey to a false piety...almost a soul-less exsistance where sin is found in matter (it most certainly does not!), and life is only something to survive in.This book brings Calvinism home. God created all things, and part of our worship of Him is to express our thanks by enjoying His creation. As Christians, we should fear NOT to celebrate His goodness...why do we preach joy, but not live it?This book brings it home.Again.PHyatt
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Attractive vision, not without applicatory flaws
The authors of this book present an attractive vision of a world in which we revel in the goodness of God. Read more
Published 7 months ago by B. Wright
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Wonderful
This book is basically a systematic critique of the emptiness and shallowness of Modernism, which has unfortunately affected even the church today. Read more
Published 7 months ago by D. Nilsen
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Bats in the Belfry
"The South will rise again." That is the confident boast of authors Douglas Jones and Douglas Wilson. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Dan Lawler
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Jones and Wilson get "medieval" on modernity's heinie
Jones and Wilson make the case against modernity and for medievalism brilliantly. They argue against the ugly, impersonal, egalitarian, anti-Christian machine that is modernity,... Read more
Published on August 7, 2009 by Michael S. Duchemin Jr.
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Beauty as a test-case argument for the Christian Worldview
Angels in the Architecture (AA) is a bold, magnificent book. And when it is wrong in factual assertions, it is magnificently wrong. Ok, seriously. Read more
Published on January 30, 2007 by Jacob
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I don't want to be preached to!
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... Read more
Published on June 30, 2003
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A grass-roots cultural vision
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... Read more
Published on June 20, 2003 by K. Blankenship
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A Critique of Modernism
Modernism has failed. While most of the intelligentsia still view the world through the strict, formal constructs of the modernist lens, the actual system is a dying religion. Read more
Published on December 26, 2000 by Mark Henreckson
