Editor’s Note: ITIA postgraduates and staff enthusiastically welcomed composer-theologian June Boyce-Tillman to our seminar this past Friday (2 November 2018). The Reverend Professor June Boyce-Tillman MBE is currently Professor of Applied Music at The University of Winchester and an…
What would it look like to interpret a biblical text from the perspective of film? How could we as Bible readers use film to inform our understanding of biblical concepts and themes? Biblical scholar Larry Kreitzer champions a way of…
I am grateful both to James McCullough and Ewan Bowlby for their thoughtful, concise and stimulating reviews of my books A Peculiar Orthodoxy (PO) and Redeeming Transcendence (RT), and to Transpositions editor Karen McClain Kiefer for the chance to respond to them.…
When one brings up religion, something in the air changes. This project was birthed out of a desire to take those air measurements. It brought me to the intersection of two questions: First, what are the perceptions of the modern-day…
Jeremy Begbie. Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts: Bearing Witness to the Triune God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018. 212 pp. $18, paperback. Jeremy Begbie’s Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts is a theological response to the pervasiveness of ‘transcendence talk’ in contemporary…
In the aftermath of the shocking attack on the Manchester Arena in May 2017, Emergency Response volunteer Ruskia Shepherd travelled to a local hospital to provide psychological support to those affected. Entering the hospital, she was struck by the lack…
Jeremy Begbie. A Peculiar Orthodoxy: Reflections on Theology and the Arts. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018. 214 pp. £24.99 / $32. Editor’s note: Jeremy Begbie, co-founder of ITIA and a pioneer in the academic scholarship and aesthetic practice related to the disciplines…
‘My God why have you forsaken me? To bend means to lie. If there is a god, he must ask me forgiveness’. This is a quote famously said to have been carved into a wall at Mauthausen, one of the…
Transpositions is pleased to welcome Rebekah Lamb as Lecturer in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. We recently had the opportunity to chat with Rebekah about her background, rooted in Canada, and her future here across the Atlantic: Originally…