Ents are worth listening to. Springing from the imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien, these tree-herding creatures are slow but powerful, ancient but attentive, and earnest but jovial. Their communicative habits, however, require laborious patience from the listener. In The Two Towers,…
Paroma Chatterjee. The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy: The Vita Image, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 297pp. 34 B/W, 16 colour illlus. ISBN: 978-1-107-03496. £64.99 hardcover. While the centrality of icons to Orthodox devotion and sacred…
As the days of autumn quickly approach and the warmth of summer rays dissolves to become the constituent parts of fond and fading memories, it is with great pleasure that we here at Transpositions return from our summer sabbatical and…
The Fourth Biennial Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference Conference dates: 18-21 July 2017 Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2016 Venue: Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, United Kingdom Congregational music-making is a vital and vibrant practice within Christian communities…
“He [the reader] does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.” C.S. Lewis On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature This interdisciplinary arts conference will feature presentations…
ITIA (the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St Andrews) is delighted to present the opportunity to work with Sir James MacMillan and research students on a short Scriptural setting for choir, as part of theTheoartistry Composers Scheme.…
Both Sides of the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis, Theological Imagination, and Everyday Discipleship. Edited by Rob Fennell. Eugene, Oregon: Resource Publications, 2015, xii + 101pp., $15.00 paperback. This collection of short essays titled Both Sides of the Wardrobe (several…
Several years ago, when our oldest daughter was just three, we visited the Art Institute of Chicago. Our visit to the museum capped off a wonderful summer day that we had spent primarily strolling along the river and through the…
Richard Viladesau. The Pathos of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts—The Baroque Era. Oxford, UK—New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. xvi + 344 pgs. Hardback. £35.99. ISBN: 9780199352685. Richard Viladesau’s compellingly written The Pathos…