PETER BANNISTER – ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

2012

Kenotic logic: Cynthia Bourgeault and Gavin Bryars

Copernichaos

Keith Ward: Beethoven, Brahms ... and Descartes' revenge

Rowan Williams - End of an era

The power and the poet

Eyeless in Paris

A 'new spiritual music'?

2011

Why theology doesn't know what to do with Gustav Mahler

The Dumb Ox and the Deaf Composer

Resounding Visions (Olivier Messiaen and Jeremy Begbie's Resounding Truth)

Into the mystic - Einojuhani Rautavaara

Squaring up over religion

‘Fighting a losing battle’ – composers as angels of history

Thirst is ouronly light (or ‘on almost agreeing with Peter Rollins’)

Tojoin or not to join Peter Rollins’ Insurrection

Sofia Gubaidulina at 80

How small a thought (Steve Reich at 75)

Resounding success (‘Classical music hits a high note’) ?

Mirror Images (Handicap, Terrorism and ArvoPärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel)

September 12th - on orthodoxy, mysticism and personal encounter

Close to the edge (Franz Liszt at the 2011 Crescendo Summer Institute)

Sacred art or ersatz worship? (Bach and spiritual renewal in Europe)

In the beginning was the jazz

Spirituality in and out of focus (a brief history of 1960s counterculture and itstheological responses) :

Introduction

The 'Marsh Chapel Miracle' (i)

The 'Marsh Chapel Miracle' (ii)

On being fair to Paul Tillich (i)

On being fair to Paul Tillich (ii)

Paul Tillich: an open verdict

Hellhounds on the trail? (i) (DionysosRising and the King of the Delta Blues)

Hellhounds on the trail? (ii) (Bernstein, the Beatles and the Law of Thelema)

Jack Flash on a candle stick (the road to Altamont)

Rhythms of the Spirit?

What future for the organ?

Shrouded in mystery: Arvo Pärt’s La Sindone

Sofia Gubaidulina: a deeper silence anda darker abyss

Sermonizing rant or visionary spirituality? Sofia Gubaidulina and Maria Yudina

The Passion according to Sofia

Poland's Golden Owls

Naming the unnameable (Wolfgang Rihm’s Deus Passus and theapophatic tradition)

Fujimura's refracted light

Roman Carnival

Cosmic Symphony – Józef Życiński (1948-2011)

Jacques Ellul and the Empire of Nonsense (iii) – alternative visions?

Jacques Ellul and the Empire of Nonsense (ii) – the modernistcookbook

Jacques Ellul and the Empire of Nonsense (i)

Whose delusion? (Pat Metheny and the New Atheism)

Kissing the leper (Albert Schweitzer, Olivier Messiaen and World Leprosy Day)

‘Celtic Orthodoxy’: ancient or modern? (i)

‘Celtic Orthodoxy’ – ancient or modern? (ii)

‘Celtic Orthodoxy’ – ancient or modern? (iii)

Adam’s continued lament - a point of conversion?