Review of Ephraim Radner, The World in the Shadow of God: An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2010). Ephraim Radner delivers a stimulating essay on his vision of natural theology as an introduction to 129…
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 is lived out. Particularly, we focus on the relationship between artistic and creative expressions. We appreciate…
[Spoiler Alert: If you keep reading this, you will learn how the movie ends!] The literary terms ‘protagonist’ and ‘antagonist’ are common enough. The ‘protagonist’ is the main character of a play, film, or story. The ‘antagonist’ is the one…
About a month ago, Wes Vander Lugt drew my attention to an article on the work of artist Guy Chase. In the article, the author James Romaine differentiates between an ‘experience of art’, in which the viewer allows the artwork…
She was the single artificer of the world In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea, Whatever self it had, became the self That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we, As we beheld her…
William A. Dyrness, Poetic Theology: God and the Poetics of Everyday Life (Eerdmans, 2011), 338 pages. Anders Nygren famously declared that the central Reformed insight was the utterly incommensurate relationship between eros – the dynamic of man’s impulse of desire,…
Contemporary Art in British Churches is the latest publication by Art & Christianity Enquiry (ACE). Published in 2010, this book aims to bring understanding to the recent resurgence of art commissioning in British churches as well as consider the ‘practical, theological…
Sandra Bowden is an artist based in New York, and also a former president of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA). Bowden’s primary medium is print making, and she often uses collography. This process allows Bowden to achieve a large depth…
In participatory theatre, everyone involved produces a work that no one could accomplish alone. Is it the same when we are performing the faith?