I would like to propose a question. If we refer to a character in film or literature that in some way represents Christ as a “Christ-figure,” is it possible to find a character who represents the Holy Spirit? If there…
One of the most notable writers of horror in the 20th century was H.P. Lovecraft. And the unique brand of Cosmic Horror he pioneered went hand in hand, as he saw it, with his hard atheism. His study of the…
A little girl wants lighter skin. She stares at the back of her hand and says, “I just don’t like the way brown looks, because the way brown looks looks really nasty for some reason.”[1] She’s not alone. In the…
This is the final post in my three-part series comparing the theology of the Rhapsodic Theatre to the theology of Jerzy Grotowski’s Poor Theatre. In my previous posts, we examined the Rhapsodic Theatre’s emphasis on the word and the Poor Theatre’s…
Here’s a thought experiment. In improvisational theatre there is a game used to generate ideas and sometimes to warm up performers called ‘Word Association’. The gist of the game is this: one person says a word and another person says…
“…some to church repair, / Not for the doctrine, but the music there.” – Alexander Pope [1] On most Sundays the Norwegian Seamen’s Church situated in the heart of Brooklyn’s Red Hook district remains shuttered and abandoned, its congregation a mere memory…
Note from the editor: From November 4th to November 9th of 2013, Transpositions hosted an online symposium on Imaginative Natural Theology. During that week, Transpositions received this piece of writing from Travis Buchanan. Although it could not be included in…
Editor’s Note: This is the second post in our new Artists in Residence series, a series intended to draw working artists like Bruce Herman, Alfonse Borysewicz and Makoto Fujimura into the theology/arts conversation here on Transpositions. … /on the puzzle…
Ralph C. Wood. Chesterton: The Nightmare Goodness of God. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2011, xi + 342 pp., £29.50 cloth. “Redemption is not primarily an inward and solitary but and outward and communal affair.”[p.221] Like a writer of detective…