The Tomb, the Throne, and the Fire: A Theological Reading of the Pentecost Icon
In traditional Christian iconography, Pentecost is associated with the image of tongues of flames, fire, or even doves, which signify the Holy Spirit in…
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The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you…
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A Fire That Lights Other Fires: Tolkien on Creation
‘I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable’ could almost belong to a liturgy of Pentecost or Confirmation, yet it does not. It is…
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Spirit and flame: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Gut String Playing
The following reflections explore a few ways in which my discipline as a violinist on gut-strung period instruments facilitates meditation on the Pentecost imagery…
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Bosco Verticale: Eden Imagined, Unfulfilled, and Unfolding
In this essay, Josh Larsen reflects on the ecological, theological, and eschatological dimensions of one of Italy’s most famous buildings, asking how it is…
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‘Our God Is (Not?) a Consuming Fire’: Reflections on a Burning Bush
Whether viewers of DreamWorks’s iconic film The Prince of Egypt notice its rich take on the story of Moses depends on how the movie…
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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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