The Crucifixion in Art and Theology

August 2019 Credo More than forty years ago, the New Testament scholar Ernst Käseman noted that ‘The sole distinguishing feature that radically separates Christianity and its Lord from other religions and their gods is the cross’. The apostle Paul warns us that the...

Arendt and ‘Organised Lying’

August 2019 Pulse In March 2018, the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods conducted a series of hearings over a period of eight days to gather views and recommendations from scholars, the media and the general public on a phenomenon that has generated...

Vatican on Gender Theory

July 2019 Pulse One of the most controversial fields of inquiry that has emerged in the last century during the post-war years is gender studies. Various influences have been attributed to the shaping of this field, whose influence is now felt in a wide variety of...

Manufactured, Manicured and Marred Beauty

July 2019 Feature When reading a book on beauty and art recently, I stumbled across an intriguing paragraph that totally grabbed my attention. The words, by Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen, read: The aestheticization of everyday life in postmodern society through the powerful...