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![On a recent trip to India I visited the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. I confess I knew little to nothing about Indian art, and so thought this an appropriate act of penance. The current exhibition, “… in the […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/d4960087x-115x115.jpg "Jamini Roy and the Lesson of (Visual) Contextualization")
Jamini Roy and the Lesson of (Visual) Contextualization
Posted on 09/04/2014 | 1 CommentOn a recent trip to India I visited the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. I confess I knew little to nothing about Indian art, and so thought this an appropriate act of penance. The current exhibition, “… in the […] -
![I often paint in order to know/see what I feel. Sometimes what I feel is not only impossible to say, but also seemingly impossible to know for certain. Paint, color, texture, shapes–physical stuff–can sometimes do a better job of getting at […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/N-studio-2-115x115.jpg "Artist in Residence Series: Art and Hospitality")
Artist in Residence Series: Art and Hospitality
Posted on 19/03/2014 | 7 CommentsI often paint in order to know/see what I feel. Sometimes what I feel is not only impossible to say, but also seemingly impossible to know for certain. Paint, color, texture, shapes–physical stuff–can sometimes do a better job of getting at […] -
![G. Walter Hansen and Bruce Herman. Through Your Eyes: Dialogues on the Paintings of Bruce Herman. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013, xxi + 117 pp., £32.99/$50.00 cloth. I’ve been waiting to see this book ever since I heard that it was in […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/9780802871176-115x115.jpg "Review: Through Your Eyes")
Review: Through Your Eyes
Posted on 17/01/2014 | No CommentsG. Walter Hansen and Bruce Herman. Through Your Eyes: Dialogues on the Paintings of Bruce Herman. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013, xxi + 117 pp., £32.99/$50.00 cloth. I’ve been waiting to see this book ever since I heard that it was in […] -
![Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, 150 pp., £29.50/$42.50 cloth. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition of seventeen works by Rembrandt from late in his career, held in 2005 at the National Gallery […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/University-of-CHicago-Press-115x115.gif "Review: The Religious Vision of Rembrandt")
Review: The Religious Vision of Rembrandt
Posted on 15/01/2014 | No CommentsArthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, 150 pp., £29.50/$42.50 cloth. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition of seventeen works by Rembrandt from late in his career, held in 2005 at the National Gallery […] -
![Editor’s Note: This is the second post in our new Artists in Residence series, a series intended to draw working artists like Bruce Herman, Alfonse Borysewicz and Makoto Fujimura into the theology/arts conversation here on Transpositions. … /on the puzzle […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Last-Supper-1-115x115.jpg "Upper Room: Alfonse Borysewicz, Artist in Residence")
Upper Room: Alfonse Borysewicz, Artist in Residence
Posted on 20/11/2013 | 3 CommentsEditor’s Note: This is the second post in our new Artists in Residence series, a series intended to draw working artists like Bruce Herman, Alfonse Borysewicz and Makoto Fujimura into the theology/arts conversation here on Transpositions. … /on the puzzle […] -
![Editor’s Note: This is the first post in our new Artists in Residence series, a series intended to draw working artists like Bruce Herman, Alfonse Borysewicz and Makoto Fujimura into the theology/arts conversation here on Transpositions. In his book Real […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/detail-Spring-115x115.jpg "Courtesia: Bruce Herman, Artist in Residence")
Courtesia: Bruce Herman, Artist in Residence
Posted on 25/09/2013 | 4 CommentsEditor’s Note: This is the first post in our new Artists in Residence series, a series intended to draw working artists like Bruce Herman, Alfonse Borysewicz and Makoto Fujimura into the theology/arts conversation here on Transpositions. In his book Real […] -
![Makoto Fujimura, Golden Sea. New York: Dillon Gallery Press, 2013, 143 pp., $100.00, cloth (with DVD). This is a lovely book. After receiving it, I walked down the path that runs behind our home here in St Andrews to the East Sands. It […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Golden-Sea_large-115x115.png "Review: Golden Sea")
Review: Golden Sea
Posted on 18/09/2013 | No CommentsMakoto Fujimura, Golden Sea. New York: Dillon Gallery Press, 2013, 143 pp., $100.00, cloth (with DVD). This is a lovely book. After receiving it, I walked down the path that runs behind our home here in St Andrews to the East Sands. It […]
![Hans Boersma, Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa: An Anagogical Approach. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Edited by Gillian Clark and Andrew Louth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 304 pp., £72.00/$135.oo cloth. Hans Boersma’s interests in sacramental ontology and ancient Christian expressions […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BOersma-Oxford-36x36.jpg "Review: Re-Approaching Gregory of Nyssa"){kind=small}
![Culture Care is the vision of culture as an ecosystem and the call to consider our stewardship of this ecosystem. Recently, as I have developed Culture Care as a thesis, I have come to a deeper understanding of the relationships between nature […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/culture-care-mako-36x36.png "Artist in Residence Series: Culture Care for Churches"){kind=small}
![I often paint in order to know/see what I feel. Sometimes what I feel is not only impossible to say, but also seemingly impossible to know for certain. Paint, color, texture, shapes–physical stuff–can sometimes do a better job of getting at […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/N-studio-2-36x36.jpg "Artist in Residence Series: Art and Hospitality"){kind=small}
![In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such ceremonies to instead admit that “a substantial part of what lies ahead of you is going […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/the-absinthe-drinker-1876.jpgBlog-36x36.jpg "Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored"){kind=small}
![Editor’s Note: In this second response to Michael Ward’s post, “The Next C.S. Lewis? A Note on Austin Farrer,” Professor Ann Loades gives a contrasting perspective. Whilst delighted that some attention is being given to one of the finest Anglophone philosopher-theologians of […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ou_kbc_pcf49_large-36x36.jpg "Austin Farrer: A Very Different ‘Kettle of Fish’"){kind=small}
![Sara Schumacher has written previously on “The Relationship between the Artist and the Church,” arguing that artists must resist the temptation to view themselves as prophets in exile for “becoming a victim … inhibits true reconciliation.”[1] In this post I’d like to […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/william_desmond-36x36.jpg "Art and the Community of Others"){kind=small}
![Editor’s Note: This is the second post in our new Artists in Residence series, a series intended to draw working artists like Bruce Herman, Alfonse Borysewicz and Makoto Fujimura into the theology/arts conversation here on Transpositions. … /on the puzzle […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Last-Supper-1-36x36.jpg "Upper Room: Alfonse Borysewicz, Artist in Residence"){kind=small}
![Amid the expanding bustle between theology and the arts, the topic of beauty seems to be ever more attractive. Among theologians it is proving especially popular. Many are questioning what Edward Farley calls the eighteenth century’s “relocation of beauty from […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/beauty-36x36.jpg "Jeremy Begbie on Beauty"){kind=small}
![Last weekend, I had 24 hours without husband and kids. I fully intended to read three books, drink endless cups of tea and sleep at least 14 hours. Before I started my book, I put on a load of laundry. […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TRANS-36x36.gif "Liturgy and Housework"){kind=small}
![Over the New Year, I had the pleasure of regularly sitting at a long dinner table with a group of artists, delighting in the conversation that developed as ideas, dreams, and challenges were shared. While this is not a realm […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/trans-36x36.gif "Artists and Academics: What They Might Have in Common"){kind=small}
![Last May, two of my best friends and I went to see The Avengers at the cinema near our university. I should disclose from the start that I am not necessarily the target audience for the film. I like my […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vladimirskaya-jimforest-Flickr-36x36.jpg "The Avengers’ Accidental Icon"){kind=small}
![It’s no secret that Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek to be secular. In a 1991 interview in The Humanist, Roddenberry said: ‘I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/emissary-final-36x36.jpg "What Makes a God?: Wormhole Aliens and Bajoran Religion"){kind=small}