First, Read Charitably: Towards an Ethic of Criticism
Being critical in the sense of articulating a negative assessment or deconstructing a work, like a piece of writing, is easy. It is easy…
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Discernment, The Holy Spirit and Art
A reflection on one way that discerning the extraordinary in the ordinary is exemplified in Christian painting, old and new. Examples are shown from Sandro Botticelli, Roger van der Weyden, Stanley Spencer, Patti Wickman, and Joel Sheesely.
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“Nor Am I Out of It”: A Review of Rob Bell’s “Love Wins”
Most book reviews open with a tidy summary of the book in question. To put it gently, Rob Bell’s new book Love Wins (HarperOne,…
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Transposing Poetry: Ekphrasis
Transposition is very much what poetry and all literary art is about. To hear snatches from the huge unknowable symphony of experience, to catch…
Read MoreLove and Death of the Simulacra
The simulacra are presences or appearances that have lost their ground in reality. They are, as it is sometimes said, a copy of a…
Read MorePopular Music and Theology: Strange Bedfellows?
As a child of a particular strand of American Protestantism, I was warned from an early age to be weary of this world and…
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The World in the Shadow of God: A Review
Review of Ephraim Radner, The World in the Shadow of God: An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2010). Ephraim…
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Believing Poetically
If you have been about Transpositions for any length of time, you’ll have noticed that each of us are interested in the way faith…
Read MoreThe Creativity of Yes: The Marian Role of the Viewer
About a month ago, Wes Vander Lugt drew my attention to an article on the work of artist Guy Chase. In the article, the…
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