PETER BANNISTER – BOOK, ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
2015
eBook: No False Prophet: Pope Francis and his not-so-cultured despisers
2013
Review of Heaven is for Real but So is Hell by Vassula Rydén
2012
Science and near-death experience: a gathering Storm (2): Life Review
The Return of Spirit - consciousness research and Christian Theology
In search of vital signs (3) - post-scriptum (Not gaga over Gaga)
The death of classical music? In search of vital signs (1)
Science and near-death experience: a gathering Storm?
Kenotic logic: Cynthia Bourgeault and Gavin Bryars
Keith Ward: Beethoven, Brahms ... and Descartes' revenge
Rowan Williams - End of an era
2011
Why theology doesn't know what to do with Gustav Mahler
The Dumb Ox and the Deaf ComposerResounding Visions (Olivier Messiaen and Jeremy Begbie's Resounding Truth)
Into the mystic - Einojuhani Rautavaara
‘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
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)
Spirituality in and out of focus (a brief history of 1960s counterculture and its theological responses) :
The 'Marsh Chapel Miracle' (i)
The 'Marsh Chapel Miracle' (ii)
On being fair to Paul Tillich (i)
On being fair to Paul Tillich (ii)
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)
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
Naming the unnameable (Wolfgang Rihm’s Deus Passus and theapophatic tradition)
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?