Review of Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
Charles Taylor. Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024, 640 pages, £31.95. In his most recent book…
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A Letter from the Editors
After a year of being offline, Transpositions is back. And we, for one, couldn’t be more thrilled about this news. Through a series of unfortunate events,…
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Salvation by Fire: The Magdalene and the Madonna in Dostoevsky’s Poetics
Introduction In Crime and Punishment, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, candle-lit Magdalenes blaze into burning-bush Madonnas, whose fiery presence proves to be redemptive. In…
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Playing with Immaterial Evidence
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of…
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Reflections on ‘Immaterial Evidence’
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of…
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Purged and Prepared: The Great-Great Grandmother’s Rosefire in George MacDonald’s Princess Stories
The Princess books, some of George MacDonald’s most memorable tales, tell the stories of two children who each encounter a wise old woman, known…
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A House for Prometheus
Inspiration is the feeling of beginning at the threshold where Silence and Light meet. Silence, the unmeasurable, desire to be, desire to express, the…
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‘The Spirit of Something’: Presence and Absence in Andrew Wyeth’s Pentecost
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), an American regionalist landscape painter, reframes Christian imagery of Pentecost in his 1989 painting of the same name. In Pentecost, large…
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Furiosa’s Redemptive Instinct to Live
Mad Max: Fury Road invites its audience onto a journey of restoration. Both ‘Mad’ Max and Furiosa are haunted by their pasts and seek…
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