Setting Fire to Music
On a cold, bright day in November, I stepped into the Senate Room at the University of St Andrews to participate in my first…
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Review: Making Good
Trevor Hart, Making Good: Creation, Creativity, and Artistry. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014. Vi+368pp. $59.95. The convergence between theology, imagination & the arts is…
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Call for Scores: Contribute to Theoartistry Composers Scheme
ITIA (the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St Andrews) is delighted to present the opportunity to work with Sir James MacMillan…
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Review: John Piper – The Fabric of Modernism
John Piper: The Fabric of Modernism marks the fiftieth anniversary of Piper’s High Altar tapestry in Chichester Cathedral by celebrating and exploring his textile…
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Poetry: Tim Bartel
The following two poems were written as part of a project exploring the possibilities of employing iambic pentameter – that worn, old meter perfected…
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Millennial Christians and the Post-Evangelical Love for Sufjan Stevens
As early as 2005, the Los Angeles Times was announcing the arrival of a new generation of musicians whose preference for introversion over boisterous ego and overwrought sexuality…
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Poetry: Two New Poems from Malcolm Guite
Transpositions is excited to provide a platform for established as well as upcoming poets whose work pushes forward our own collective interest in the areas of theology,…
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Let There Be Rock: The Strange Poetics of Richard Dawkins’ Rock Opera
It is perhaps one of the more immediately striking partnerships in the history of music. On one side we have Tuomas Holopainen, pianist and…
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Resurrecting the Country Priest: Approaching the Parish in Film and Literature
The shepherd’s brow, fronting forked lightning, owns The horror and the havoc and the glory Of it…. —G. M. Hopkins, ‘The Shepherd’s Brow,’ 1918….
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