Music and Transcendence 29 November 2011 Cambridge, U.K. About the conference This interdisciplinary conference will explore the ways in which music relates to transcendence. Papers will consider the ways in which music relates to infinite and ‘ultimate’ meaning as well…
In my previous post on Benedictine hospitality in the theatre, I wrote the following: One example of hospitable care for the audience is dramaturgy – providing the audience with information about the play that will help them understand the show,…
Starting Monday, Transpositions will devote a week to the topic of art and education. We are pleased to include contributions from a variety of perspectives that will help us wrestle with the way in which Christian theology intersects with the…
Review of Steven R. Guthrie, Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Human (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011). In what is a timely and relevant book, Steven Guthrie offers an expert map through some rather difficult…
In a previous post, I argued that one of the ways we can understand the digital age’s impact on arts patronage is in terms of the shift from the patron as connoisseur to the patron as participant. In this post,…
Continued from Part 1. CB: From what I can gather, your work seems to have gone through several phases: the early/seminary years (1977-81), which you’ve described as “…garish – sort of Otto Dix meets Marc Chagall”[vii]; then art school in…
I stumbled upon Alfonse Borysewicz’s (pronounced Boruh-CHEV-itz) work in SEEN: The Journal of CIVA,[i]and, like C.S. Lewis in his An Experiment in Criticism,wanted to “learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee,”[ii] or, in this case, an…
Christopher R. Brewer, ed., Art that Tells the Story. Grand Rapids, MI: Gospel through Shared Experience, 2011. 102 pp., $24.99 paper. Don’t open the book right away. Put it in your hands, feel its heft, appreciate the cover. Are you ready? This…
In the heart of London, by Trafalgar Square and the National Galleries, sits the Notre Dame University London Center. From the 14-16 July 2011, the centre, located in the iconic building which once housed the Combined Cambridge and Oxford Universities…