Jolyon Mitchell, Giselle Vincett, Theodora Hawksley, and Hal Culbertson, eds. Peacebuilding and the Arts. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, xxii + 483 pp., £89.99 hardcover, £71.50 eBook. On March 16, 2020, at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, I tweeted…
At the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, there is a room featuring a number of paintings by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Vibrant in colour and detail, many of Bruegel’s paintings can appear like a Renaissance version of a…
Michael R. Candelaria, The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology (Querencias Series). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018, 272pp., $65.00 cloth. Michael Candelaria’s basic premise behind his book The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology is that there…
In Part One of this series, the Arts and Faith Ecumenical Jury revealed their Top 10 films of 2018. For Part Two, each film critic on the jury chose one film from 2018 that he or she wanted to recommend…
We are honoured at Transpositions to host the 2018 Arts and Faith Ecumenical Jury Top 10 Films, based at www.artsandfaith.com. Since 2014, the Ecumenical Jury is an annual collaboration between film critics with a Christian perspective and tradition. Jury founder and…
The traditional popular Christmas film is typically full of holiday joy and good cheer, as exemplified by enduring classics like the musical White Christmas, the madcap silliness of Elf, or the syrupy sentiment of Love, Actually. To be clear, I…
Editor’s Note: Every August, the village of Pittenweem in Fife’s East Neuk hosts the Pittenweem Arts Festival. Transpositions Associate Editor Joel Mayward recently interviewed Barbara Fleming, one of the Festival’s board members (and St Mary’s postgrad secretary!) about the Festival’s history…
I find it sadly ironic that Garth Davis’s exquisite 2018 film Mary Magdalene became an unexpected victim in the #MeToo movement which emerged following the New York Times article on movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s purported long history of sexual harassment and abuse.…
Keir Shreeves. Art for Mission’s Sake: Announcing the Gospel Through the Creative Arts. Cambridge: Grove Books Limited, 2017, 1-28pp., £3.95. Keir Shreeves’ concise booklet Art for Mission’s Sakeis a theologically-minded invitation to Protestant evangelical churchgoers and church leaders to reconsider…