Editor’s Note: Guest contributor Jennifer Agee leads us into Easter weekend with her prose poem “Vigil”. The Transpositions team would like to wish our readers a blessed Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. “Vigil” We have seen the labor pains of creation.…
Stephen M. Garrett. God’s Beauty-in-Act: Participating in God’s Suffering Glory. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2013, xviii + 243 pp., $29.00 paperback. In this book based on his doctoral dissertation, Stephen M. Garrett, Lecturer of Public Theology and Philosophy of Religion…
Jessica DeCou, Playful, Glad, and Free: Karl Barth and a Theology of Popular Culture. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013. 240 pp., £38.99 paper. For those questioning whether or not Karl Barth even had a theology of culture, Jessica DeCou’s well-written text brings…
The Society for the Study of Theology Postgraduate Conference Images, Icons & Idols 9-10 January 2015, University of Manchester This conference seeks to explore the interconnection of images, iconographic and idolatrous. The body of Christ is a classic theme in…
Greg Bottoms, The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007. 200 pp., £14.00 cloth. This volume, exploring the lives and works of three prominent southern fundamentalist Christian outsider artists, is an interesting mixture of literary journalism and memoir.…
On a recent trip to India I visited the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. I confess I knew little to nothing about Indian art, and so thought this an appropriate act of penance. The current exhibition, “… in the…
Following up on several recent posts about caring for celebrities and artists, Amber and I have decided to put together a list of organisations ministering to artists. If you know an artist working in New York City, Los Angeles, London or other…
Trevor Hart, Gavin Hopps, and Jeremy Begbie, eds. Art, Imagination and Christian Hope: Patterns of Promise. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012, xi + 193 pp., £55.00 hardcover. The fruit of a 2006 colloquium hosted by the Institute for Theology, Imagination and…
At the bottom of the impulse to care for high-profile performing artists lie a couple of differing conceptions of mission. On one end of the spectrum, the desire for these communities to know Christ seems to be primarily about two…