[Editor’s Note: Midway through our eight-week series on The Saint John’s Bible, Anne Kaese muses on The Saint John’s Bible as a calligrapher who helps bring it to life through workshops and presentations. For an introduction to The Saint John’s Bible…
In one of his many essays on Milton, Northrop Frye defines the epic poem as a ‘special kind’ of narrative poem that does more than simply recount a heroic narrative; the epic, he argues, additionally offers an ‘encyclopedic quality, .…
Jack R. Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro, and Daniel Train, eds. ‘The Saint John’s Bible’ and Its Tradition: Illuminating Beauty in the Twenty-First Century. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018. 198 pp. $25 paperback. The creation of The Saint John’s Bible was a remarkable project…
Creating art and engaging in spiritual reflection are often solitary pursuits. Nevertheless, for the past five years, three American artists have assembled for an annual working residency that has sustained their artistic practice, deepened their friendship, and strengthened their faith.…
[Editor’s Note: In the second part of our eight-week series on The Saint John’s Bible, Jonathan Homrighausen, author of Illuminating Justice: The Ethical Imagination of ‘The Saint John’s Bible’ (reviewed here last week), provides commentary, lectio divina insights and image exegesis on…
One may be forgiven for questioning the theological value of art festivals; after all, they can be known for their unbridled commerce and questionable aesthetic taste, not to mention chaotic parking. Then again, so can churches. As a vision of…
Editor’s Note: Every August, the village of Pittenweem in Fife’s East Neuk hosts the Pittenweem Arts Festival. Transpositions Associate Editor Joel Mayward recently interviewed Barbara Fleming, one of the Festival’s board members (and St Mary’s postgrad secretary!) about the Festival’s history…
Jonathan Homrighausen. Illuminating Justice: The Ethical Imagination of ‘The Saint John’s Bible’. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2018. 144 pages. $24.95. Editor’s note: This review is part of our series on The Saint John’s Bible. For Associate Editor Karen McClain…
Today, Transpositions is delighted to kick off an eight-week series on The Saint John’s Bible. For those unaware, The Saint John’s Bible is the first handwritten, illuminated Bible of its scale in over 500 years. The Bible gets its name from…