Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom on New York's Third Avenue, Auden's analysis of Western culture during the Second World War won the Pulitzer Prize and inspired a symphony by Leonard Bernstein as well as a ballet by Jerome Robbins. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem-immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Join the conversation and make a contribution today. When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety-W. I generally associate myself with that theological stream, and am grateful for the opportunity to refine my thinking by engaging WebsterРІР‚в„ўs theology in this companion.Р”Р‡irst Things depends on its subscribers and supporters. Webster, though he greatly appreciated Barth and had intimate knowledge of his thought, was able to provide penetrating critiques of the РІР‚СљpostliberalРІР‚Сњ theology indebted to Barth. Nearly all of the essays in this volume are high quality, which is rare in such collections. Webster died tragically early, just a few years ago. The second book is A Companion to the Theology of John Webster, edited by Michael Allen and R. It is a significant contribution to the revival of theological metaphysics we are witnessing at the moment. He does not merely recapitulate PrzywaraРІР‚в„ўs views, but constructively builds upon them and engages important postmodern religious philosophers and theologians to demonstrate the ongoing relevance of an analogical metaphysics. Gonzales makes his contribution here, and it is masterful. Various scholars have recently sought to retrieve this teaching of Przywara and explain it to a contemporary audience. Most Protestants have subsequently dismissed the idea out of hand. Barth famously referred to the metaphysical doctrine of the analogia entis as the РІР‚Сљinvention of the anti-ChristРІР‚Сњ and a primary reason he could never become a Catholic. Metaphysics fell on hard times in the second half of the twentieth century. First is Philip John Paul GonzalesРІР‚в„ўs Reimagining the Analogia Entis: The Future of Erich Przywara's Christian Vision.

Two works that IРІР‚в„ўve recently come across pose an indirect challenge to Barthian assumptions that I, and many modern theologians, tend to hold. But the impenetrability is part of the allure, and like the other modernist masterworks, this text calls to be read and reread again and again. A High Modernist text, albeit twenty years after High ModernismРІР‚в„ўs peak, this poem deserves to be classed alongside РІР‚СљThe Waste Land.РІР‚Сњ Like EliotРІР‚в„ўs great poem, The Age of Anxiety occasionally verges on the impenetrable, especially in the poemРІР‚в„ўs third part, where Auden sends the reader into a dream vision that draws upon Jungian psychoanalysis and is structured around the Zohar, a kabbalistic text-two things about which I know unfortunately little. Auden here is at his lyrical best, and the melding of Anglo-Saxon alliteration with the imagery of telegrams and radios is delightfully disorienting. AudenРІР‚в„ўs long poem The Age of AnxietyР’В is not more widely known or discussed.

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