Matthew J. Milliner

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Read this in the last century and never looked back.

from the same piece:

Fascinating.

Wild.

For what it's worth, here's a chart I cooked up covering some competing claims to the "Celtic."

How many needless Reformed tirades against mysticism or tired Catholic caricatures of Protestantism could have been avoided by reading just the introduction to these beauties from the 1970s, let alone the texts themselves.

A bombshell on the playground of the psychotherapists.

@Kin_Loch @ivpress He’s a legend. Regular campus visitor.

My colleague Karen Johnson has an excellent chapter on John Perkins (of blessed memory) in her latest book with @ivpress

You may have given up bourbon for Lent, at least you can read about it. Here’s an older piece on Thomas Merton’s mysticism compared to the distillation process. imagejournal.org/article/becomi…

Someone had to say it.

Here we are nearly 350 pages into the book that definitively answered tired assumptions that Emily Carr thoughtlessly “appropriated” First Nations imagery. More on this in the upcoming installment of Material Mysticism, to which one can subscribe here: comment.org/columns/materi…

"For all the recent talk of 'wild' Christianity (whether Paul Kingsnorth, Martin Shaw, Michael Martin, or Nick Cave), Bourgeault might be the wildest of them all. But my intuition has long been that Bourgeault is not the renegade [many] claim her to be." comment.org/the-wildest-ch…

@Kin_Loch this is the version I was thinking of.

@Kin_Loch Yes books.google.com/books/about/Ph…

The real Enlightenment (conclusion to Andrew Louth's brilliant chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Deification).

And those not due yet.

On a library return day, another look at the books informing the forthcoming @ivpacademic Mere Iconography, with thanks to IKEA for the support.

“It is the tale of our century. But that doesn’t make it true.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkingsn…