Review: The Self Portrait: A Cultural History
James Hall, The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History, New York: Thames and Hudson, 2014, 288pp, 120 Illustrations, 109 in colour, £24.95. British art historian and critic…
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Learning in a Musical Key: A Review
James McCullough reviews Lisa M. Hess’s book Learning in a Musical Key: Insight for Theology in Performative Mode (Pickwick, 2011).
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Earthly Visions: A Review
Review of T.J. Gorringe, Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 254 pages. “How does art contribute…
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Beauty Will Save the World: A Review
A Review of: Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age, by Gregory Wolfe Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2011. 278 pages.
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Poetic Theology: A Review
William A. Dyrness, Poetic Theology: God and the Poetics of Everyday Life (Eerdmans, 2011), 338 pages. Anders Nygren famously declared that the central Reformed…
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Theological Engagement with the Craft, Content, and Context of Art
Over the past several months, in a series of articles written for Transpositions, Wes Vander Lugt and I presented three crucial dynamics constituting art,…
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Chapter One: What is a work of art?
Review of Chapter 1 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from…
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Saving Leonardo: A Review
In her new book, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning (2010), Nancy Pearcey has produced the…
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Reflections on the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts
As a student working on a doctorate in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) at St. Andrews University, I am sometimes…
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