Review: Do the Gods Wear Capes?
Ben Saunders, Do the Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes (New York: Continuum, 2011). 178 pages. Only half-jokingly I occasionally recommend to my…
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Engaging Art Prize: Two Vignettes [Part Three]
Editor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 3-part series on Art Prize by guest contributor, Chris Brewer. Brewer started with an introduction to the competition (published 11 April), followed…
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Review: Christ to Coke
Martin Kemp, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (Oxford University Press, 2012). 368 pages. What images deserve the status of ‘icon’? In his…
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We Can Do Better: A Reply to John Starke
You may have noticed that The Gospel Coalition has recently produced videos and blog posts that explore the relationship between Christianity and the arts….
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An Exercise in Transposition: Reflections on ‘The Artist’
In a featurette on the making of the film ‘The Artist’, actor James Cromwell, who plays Clifton the chauffeur remarks about the film, ‘What’s…
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Keep Calm and Pray On
If you haven’t seen “Keep Calm and Carry On” or one of its variations over the past decade, you’ve missed a truly global phenomenon.[1]…
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Wounded for Our Visual Transgressions…
Good art opens the mind and emotions. It stretches one’s perspective, questions one’s beliefs, agitates apathy, and invites one to explore the mysterious. It…
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A Nod to Gestures
What if we hold to a theology that understands being a Christian as being united with Christ and that, as such, God is able to reveal himself through us? Does such a thought excite or frighten? Or, would you just rather wave the whole thing away?
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Under the Wings of the Bat: Symbol & Community in Neil Gaiman’s Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
Superheroes are often re-born in different incarnations. A writer will start the storyline afresh and a new version of the hero will be born….
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