A word about theology and the arts in such a time as this… (i.e., What we did this summer)
For much of the time during the first several months of lockdown, Transpositions was on its usual summer break, but we did stay aware…
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Review: Coloring the Psalms, Seeing God’s Patterns in Our Lives
Coloring the Psalms: Seeing God’s Patterns in Our Lives. By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, illustrated by James Newman Gray. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016….
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Whimsical Imagination
In the spirit of whimsy, I shall present this post through a series of inter- and un-related sketches or doodles rather than linear argumentation….
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Review: Making Good
Trevor Hart, Making Good: Creation, Creativity, and Artistry. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014. Vi+368pp. $59.95. The convergence between theology, imagination & the arts is…
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Tongues, Art, and St. Paul’s Rules of Order: A Few Suggestions
“Speaking in tongues” is an act, written about in the New Testament and experienced by Christians to the present day, in which the Spirit…
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The Invention of the Creative Person
“Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.”[1] Is it really? “The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation … What we…
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Is The Maker Movement Making Souls?
Have you heard of the Maker Movement? I recently picked up a book titled The Maker Movement Manifesto (McGraw Hill, 2014). In this…
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Creativity as a Call to Virtue?
Sooner or later, the writer of creative fiction seems bound to ask just how free are my characters? Good writers strive to make their…
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Trinitarian Creativity: Creation, Self and Originality
Can we add anything to the universe? Can we give anything back to God that he has not already given to us? When we…
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