A couple of weeks ago, Sara reflected on the importance of culture-making to our experience of place. She said, “I want to suggest that it is our making of culture within a place that preserves our ‘place’ within it.” While…
God’s Grandeur is a collection of essays from the 2006 annual conference of the College Theology Society (CTS) and National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR). David Robinson has collected a fine variety from the overwhelming wealth of presentations…
Over the weekend, Anna and I had the opportunity to take part in the Christian New Media Awards and Conference. Transpositions was nominated and awarded the runner-up prize in the Best Christian Blog category at the Awards on Friday evening.…
What does saving seeds have to do with splendor, or responsible waste disposal with wonder, or biodiversity with beauty? Everything, according to Belden Lane, especially when viewed through the lens of Reformed theology. For those who understand Reformed theology to…
Registration is now open for a one-day inter-disciplinary conference on Music and Transcendence to be held in Cambridge, UK on 29 November 2011. All papers and performances will consider the ways in which music relates to infinite and ‘ultimate’ meaning…
Marilynne Robinson, Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (Yale University Press, 2010). 140 pages. When my colleague and friend Jenn Craft suggested that I review Marilynne Robinson’s Absence of Mind for Transpositions, I…
We have now arrived at the final post in this five part series. Up to this point, I have considered the way that one’s approach to the image of God influences one’s theological reflection on artistic creativity. In Part II,…
We have now arrived at the fourth installment of our series on comparing divine and artistic creativity. In previous posts, Part II and Part III, I considered two different theological approaches to human creativity. The first roots creativity in the…
In a symposium considering ‘art appreciation’, it seems appropriate to consider its definition. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ‘appreciation’ involves ‘[t]he action of estimating qualities or things’, a ‘sympathetic recognition of excellence’, and ‘[p]erception, recognition, [and] intelligent notice.’ So…