Author’s Note: This is my final post for Transpositions as a regular contributor. I have immensely enjoyed being a part of Transpositions since its inception in 2010. As a scholar and a writer, I am deeply grateful for the interactions…
Gordon Graham, The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, ix + 199 pp., £19.99 paper. This book is the published version of Graham’s 2005 Stanton Lectures in the Philosophy of Religion delivered at the University of Cambridge.…
Byre Theatre reopens to welcome Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring The famous Russian pianist and conductor Sviatoslav Richter once famously dubbed it as “the greatest comic opera of the (last) century” – and this month Benjamin Britten’s comic opera, Albert Herring,…
In this post I want to suggest a way in which film can utilize what C.S. Lewis called “the narrative qualities of the [in this case, moving] picture” to teach listening as a significant hermeneutic posture.[1] I want to draw…
Editor’s Note: One of the great privileges of living here in St Andrews has been, for my family, attending All Saints’ Church. Breaking from our normal posting schedule, I thought we might reflect together today, the Day of Pentecost, upon…
Imagination and reason: how do they relate to each other? Working in the field of cultural apologetics, and specifically in imaginative and literary apologetics, I am beginning to see a growing interest in the role of the imagination in communicating…
Keith L. Johnson and Timothy Larsen, eds. Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2013, 208 pp., £12.99, paper. The question of ‘Christ and Culture’ persists and here we are gifted with a volume whose contributors’ “love for Bonhoeffer,…
Peter and Linda Murray, and Tom Devonshire Jones, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art & Architecture, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xii + 654 pp., £35.00 cloth. In this expanded, 2nd edition, Tom Devonshire Jones has breathed new life into what…
Alister McGrath. C.S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013. 431 pp., £20.00 cloth. Alister McGrath’s new biography of C.S. Lewis is a useful addition to Lewis literature, especially as a summary of and…