Bosco Verticale: Eden Imagined, Unfulfilled, and Unfolding
In this essay, Josh Larsen reflects on the ecological, theological, and eschatological dimensions of one of Italy’s most famous buildings, asking how it is…
Read More-
Call for Submissions: A World Ablaze
Learn More
Latest Articles
‘Our God Is (Not?) a Consuming Fire’: Reflections on a Burning Bush
Whether viewers of DreamWorks’s iconic film The Prince of Egypt notice its rich take on the story of Moses depends on how the movie…
Read More
Review of Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
Charles Taylor. Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024, 640 pages, £31.95. In his most recent book…
Read More
A Letter from the Editors
After a year of being offline, Transpositions is back. And we, for one, couldn’t be more thrilled about this news. Through a series of unfortunate events,…
Read More
Salvation by Fire: The Magdalene and the Madonna in Dostoevsky’s Poetics
Introduction In Crime and Punishment, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, candle-lit Magdalenes blaze into burning-bush Madonnas, whose fiery presence proves to be redemptive. In…
Read More
Playing with Immaterial Evidence
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of…
Read More
Reflections on ‘Immaterial Evidence’
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of…
Read More
Purged and Prepared: The Great-Great Grandmother’s Rosefire in George MacDonald’s Princess Stories
The Princess books, some of George MacDonald’s most memorable tales, tell the stories of two children who each encounter a wise old woman, known…
Read More
A House for Prometheus
Inspiration is the feeling of beginning at the threshold where Silence and Light meet. Silence, the unmeasurable, desire to be, desire to express, the…
Read More