I’m pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts, for which I am a contributing editor. If you’re interested in a conversation between faith the arts and media, you’ll find a lot to love in IeR!

The journal is focused on including both works about art (including book reviews) and submissions of art – writing, poetry, visual arts, etc. In this issue, we’re featuring:

“God and Meaning in Music: Messiaen, Deleuze, and the Musico-Theological Critique of Modernism and Postmodernism” by Catherine Pickstock

“The Beauty of the Metaphysical Imagination” by John R. Betz

“The Ink is Flowing: A Study of Religious Meaning in Tattoo Culture” by Andrew McCarthy

“Lost in Ghent” by Jim Hale

Art by Martin French

“The Hardest Part” by Leigh Hickman

Poetry by Lauren K. Alleyne

An Interview with Deidox Film co-creator Dave Mahanes

Reviews: Girlchild: A Novel by Tupelo Hassman, Reviewed by Michial Farmer; Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 Practical Things You Don’t Have to Do by Phillip Cary, Reviewed by Nathan Gilmour; World on a Wire, Criterion Collection Blu-ray, Reviewed by Jeff Sellars; The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, and Faithby Philip Clayton and Steven Knapp, Reviewed by Austin J. Roberts

You can browse through the digital issue below, or get the print edition on the Wipf and Stock website.