Hans Rookmaaker’s ‘Four Freedoms’ and Christian Art (Part II)
Dr. E. John Walford is Professor of Art History at Wheaton College, Illinois, where he has taught since 1981. He is author of Jacob…
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Hans Rookmaaker’s ‘Four Freedoms’ and Christian Art (Part I)
Dr. E. John Walford is Professor of Art History at Wheaton College, Illinois, where he has taught since 1981. He is author of Jacob…
Read MoreEngaging the Arts: Craft, Content, and Context
~Wesley Vander Lugt and James McCullough One of the opportunities and challenges facing those at the intersection of theology and the arts is finding…
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Reading Literature Theologically
If you’ve been following Transpositions over the last week you would have seen the discussion that followed Jim McCullough’s review of Nancy Pearcey’s Saving…
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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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Learning How to Transpose: How the Arts Inform Christianity
One of the reasons for naming this blog Transpositions is that all of us are interested in creative transpositions between the arts and Christianity,…
Read MoreChristian Conversations with Anti-Christian Art: 4 Approaches
The term “Christian art” is notoriously difficult to define. I won’t attempt to do so here. For the purposes of this blog post, I…
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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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Art as a Theological Text: 3 Approaches
Is it possible to read a work of art (whether it be a painting, a song, a dance, a comic book, etc.) as a…
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