Hospitable Texts: New Approaches to Religion and Literature
I’m heading to London today with two of my colleagues at ITIA (Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts) to present papers at The…
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The Artist as Rememberer (Part 1)
In an interview, Wendell Berry once remarked: “In a truly grounded, locally adapted culture, the artists would be rememberers.”[1] This statement brought up several…
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Redeeming Bodies: God, Poetry, and Healing
Last autumn in the most unlikely of places—an academic conference in Oxford—I was reminded of the redemptive theological potential of the arts. In the…
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Transposing Poetry: Ekphrasis
Transposition is very much what poetry and all literary art is about. To hear snatches from the huge unknowable symphony of experience, to catch…
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The World in the Shadow of God: A Review
Review of Ephraim Radner, The World in the Shadow of God: An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2010). Ephraim…
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Believing Poetically
If you have been about Transpositions for any length of time, you’ll have noticed that each of us are interested in the way faith…
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C. S. Lewis: Writer and Poet
Review of Part III: Writer (chapters 19-21). Alan Jacobs, “The Chronicles of Narnia,” 265-280; Peter J. Schakel, “Til We Have Faces,” 281-293; Malcolm Guite,…
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C. S. Lewis: Writer (of journeying and heavenly things)
Guest Contributor, Travis Buchanan offers this discussion of Part III: Writer (chapters 16-18). The discussion below assumes familiarity with David Jasper, “The Pilgrim’s Regress…
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C. S. Lewis: The Professional Scholar
Stephen Schuler, offers this review of Part I: Scholar (chapters 2-5). John V. Fleming, “Literary Critic,” 15-28; Stephen Logan, “Literary Theorist,” 29-42; Dennis Danielson, “Intellectual…
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