A Sermon for Pentecost, from the Reverend Canon Jonathan Mason
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…
Read MoreAesthetics & Liturgy
That They May Be One: Multifaceted Musical Unity
Sitting in the midst of the ruins of St Andrews cathedral in Scotland, I can almost envision an ancient ritual being performed by the…
Read More
A Gesture in Kind
Nearly 450 years after his death, the artwork of Michelangelo is still making the news. This time as the subject of a study on…
Read More
Beautiful Paradox: Humanity’s Participation in Christ
If the Christian faith is true, that is, if through the tragic event of the cross followed by the act of resurrection and ascension, God’s…
Read More
‘The Long Prologue to Transfiguration’; Dostoyevsky and the Aesthetics of Liturgical Performance
George Steiner asks us in his essay ‘Absolute Tragedy’, “What are we meant to make of the Father’s descent into or absence from time…
Read More
Reimagining the Function of Bioethics: Participating with Wisdom in the Story of Human Flourishing
There might not be any better way to describe Sophia than by articulating how the pursuit of, and encounter with, wisdom in thought and…
Read More
The Sign of the Cross: Participatory Aesthetics
Dr. Holly Ordway is Chair of the Department of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, and is the author of Not God’s Type: A Rational…
Read More
Censer, Crucifix, Candlestick: The Icon Trinity in the Mass
Popular history in Protestant circles has often reimagined the medieval church as suffering from severe illiteracy in lay Christians. Images of Bibles chained to…
Read More
Introduction to Aesthetics and Liturgy Symposium
Next week will see Transpositions host a symposium on Aesthetics and Liturgy, curated by Anna Blanch and Preston Yancey. Most broadly, liturgy can be…
Read More