Giving Thanks Through Poetry
God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, Live. – Gerard Manley Hopkins The holiday that has memorialized both the event and the spirit of that thanksgiving meal of…
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Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with the Eyes of God – A Review
A Review of Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with the Eyes of God by Clemena Antonova (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010). In an impressive display of depth of understanding, scholarly citation, and engagement with both fascinating and…
Giving Thanks Through Sculpture: Andy Goldsworthy
In the days leading up to the American holiday of Thanksgiving, the crew here at Transpositions are going to reflect on various ways that works of art can be a form of giving thanks. All art making, at a very…
Featured Artist: Nathan Coley
Nathan Coley was born in Glasgow in 1967, and he currently lives and works in Glasgow. He also received a BA in Fine Arts at (of all places) the Glasgow School of Art. He has had numerous solo and group…
Exploring Tragedy through Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Among the most powerful aspects of human art is its ability to reveal our emotional appropriation of crucial theological issues. For instance, the literary genre of tragedy probes with searing honesty how human projects and relationships are thwarted by the…
Divine Command and Human Making—or, What Scripture Might Tell Us about a “Christian Understanding of the Arts”
Art is one of those things that Christians have had a hard time coming to terms with in light of the {lack of} attention given to it in Scripture. But while Jesus himself never explicitly advocates painting or poetry, Scripture…
Faith, Hope and Poetry: A Review
Transposition is very much what poetry and all literary art is about. To hear snatches from the huge unknowable symphony of experience, to catch them and transpose them to a key that resonates with our understanding, so that at some…
The Church Brand.
Recently, GAP clothing changed their logo, sparking worldwide debate and criticism, eventually resulting in them reinstating their original logo. The reason? The new logo didn’t ‘feel’ like GAP. This feeling that logos generate in the consumer are part of the…
Transpositions Tidbits
We haven’t done a Transpositions Tidbits post in a while, but that’s not for want of great links to share. We’re always on the look out for anything related to Theology, Imagination and the Arts and this list is only…