A Review of Férdia J. Stone-Davis, Musical Beauty: Negotiating the Boundary between Subject and Object (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011) Beauty, understood by means of wonder, gains a transformative power.[1] In her recent book, Musical Beauty, Férdia Stone-Davis undertakes an…
Last Tuesday (15 February), we had the pleasure of hosting a part concert/part discussion with singer-songwriter, Miriam Jones. The evening was structured in such a way where there were extended times between songs where Miriam invited the listener into her…
This is a bumper tidbits post! We’ve been hearing how much the posts about Artists and Art are particularly enjoyed, so I thought that a post featuring Artists, recent projects and lots and lots of links will be the best…
Osvaldo Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos was commissioned in 2000 as one of a quartet of new passion-settings. The work attracted glowing reviews and made a striking impact on its first audiences [1]. In La Pasión, Golijov, an Argentinian…
If you’ve been following Transpositions over the last week you would have seen the discussion that followed Jim McCullough’s review of Nancy Pearcey’s Saving Leonardo. Though that discussion was about appreciating the visual arts, I’d like to pick up on…
A quick study of body of Christ in western art history reveals a complex set of theological issues relating to who Jesus was and how he is depicted. Just as the gospels offer different and complementary perspectives on the person…
Anne Laure Djaballah (here is her website) is a contemporary artist living and working in Montreal, Canada. Much of her work might be described vaguely as ‘abstract painting,’ although she also produces interesting box-and-wire installations and her paintings do not…
The Theological Engagement with California Culture (TECC) Project is a new collaborative project is seeking to engage the most pressing issues in California’s recent history, while conducting interdisciplinary theological engagement in addressing its research questions. The project is hosting its…
In her new book, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning (2010), Nancy Pearcey has produced the kind of text I want to write someday: deeply researched but accessibly composed, rooted in a…