Jim Watkins is the featured artist editor of, and a regular contributor to, Transpositions. His PhD research at the University of St Andrews explores a comparison between divine and artistic creativity. He lives in St Andrews with his wife and…
David Brown is Professor of Theology, Aesthetics and Culture, and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. He has published numerous books on theology and imagination, including his five-volume series with Oxford University Press: Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and…
He is risen! He is risen indeed! This pronouncement echoing around the globe on this day constitutes the core of the Christian gospel. And this is a gospel that not only informs our minds, takes root in our hearts, and…
Matthias Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece offers one of the most stunning portrayals of the sufferings of Christ. When I look at this painting, I am reminded that Christ did not suffer alone. Like Mary the mother of God, and like Mary…
I’m tired. Actually, I’m exhausted: physically, emotionally, mentally. I’m even a little tired spiritually. It has been a rough few months. I’m still grieving the loss of my grandmother. I’m definitely in the hard yards phase of the second year…
What is it about wilderness—the seemingly endless landscape—that draws people out of their high-rise apartments and cookie-cutter suburban homes into a sort of ‘pilgrimage’—petroleum-fuelled pilgrimages beginning at 75 miles per hour into the mountains? What is it about the beauty…
‘Religion, Nature and Art’ Sponsored and in Cooperation with the Vatican Museums 13-14 October 2011, Rome Italy Information & Call for Paper Proposals This conference, jointly sponsored by the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums, headed by Prof. Nicola Mapelli,…
This week Jenn Craft and Cole Matson have explored, in a thoughtful way, the significance of place in the arts. Today’s post will not be near as erudite nor, in the end, as profound. But, I do want to think…