Introducing — Christianity and the Theatre
Over the past several months, we here at Transpositions have been working behind the scenes and in the wings to gather together a variety…
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Beauty as Love: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics
According to Hans Urs von Balthasar, in The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, vol. 1, Seeing the Form, if theological aesthetics is…
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Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part I)
We are living in a time when many clergy and lay professionals are calling upon Christians to be creative. This quote from Andy Crouch’s…
Read More“I’m Going to Lie to Lots of People”: Mike Daisey & Theatrical Fiction
On January 6, 2012, the public radio show This American Life aired an excerpt from monologuist Mike Daisey‘s show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve…
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Wounded for Our Visual Transgressions…
Good art opens the mind and emotions. It stretches one’s perspective, questions one’s beliefs, agitates apathy, and invites one to explore the mysterious. It…
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A Nod to Gestures
What if we hold to a theology that understands being a Christian as being united with Christ and that, as such, God is able to reveal himself through us? Does such a thought excite or frighten? Or, would you just rather wave the whole thing away?
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Toward An Ethics of Children’s Fiction
As parents, we all know we should be reading aloud to our children. There are countless anthologies of children’s literature that tell us what…
Read MoreDorothy L. Sayers on the Contemplative Vocation of the Artist
One of my favourite pieces of writing by Dorothy L. Sayers is her 1946 letter exchange with C.S. Lewis.[1] Lewis wrote to Sayers inviting…
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Beauty, Ethics, and Reformed Spirituality
What does saving seeds have to do with splendor, or responsible waste disposal with wonder, or biodiversity with beauty? Everything, according to Belden Lane,…
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