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![Patrick Colm Hogan, How Authors’ Minds Make Stories. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xxi + 227 pp., £55.00/$90.00, cloth. In How Authors’ Minds Make Stories, Patrick Colm Hogan explains literary creation in terms of cognitive science. Drawing on both […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Metallica-115x115.jpg "Reviews: Authors’ Minds & Metallica")
Reviews: Authors’ Minds & Metallica
Posted on 25/04/2014 | No CommentsPatrick Colm Hogan, How Authors’ Minds Make Stories. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xxi + 227 pp., £55.00/$90.00, cloth. In How Authors’ Minds Make Stories, Patrick Colm Hogan explains literary creation in terms of cognitive science. Drawing on both […] -
![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-115x115.jpg "Review: Re-Approaching Gregory of Nyssa")
Review: Re-Approaching Gregory of Nyssa
Posted on 28/03/2014 | 4 CommentsHans 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 […] -
![Everyone has at least one piece of literature they are congenitally afraid of picking up. Be it the fear and trembling of page count, plot synopsis, or personal distaste for protagonists in the whaling industry, we all have literary tomes […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Bookshelf-115x115.jpg "The Joy of Being Blindfolded: Or Why You Should Read Thomas Pynchon")
The Joy of Being Blindfolded: Or Why You Should Read Thomas Pynchon
Posted on 15/07/2013 | No CommentsEveryone has at least one piece of literature they are congenitally afraid of picking up. Be it the fear and trembling of page count, plot synopsis, or personal distaste for protagonists in the whaling industry, we all have literary tomes […] -
![The Revd Dr Robert MacSwain, a St Andrews alum, alerts us to two sessions at this year’s American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature conference in Baltimore, Maryland, November 2013, that are relevant to Transpositions readers: 1) “‘A New Way of Doing Theology’: […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/trans-115x115.gif "David Brown & C.S. Lewis at 2013 AAR/SBL Conference")
David Brown & C.S. Lewis at 2013 AAR/SBL Conference
Posted on 28/06/2013 | No CommentsThe Revd Dr Robert MacSwain, a St Andrews alum, alerts us to two sessions at this year’s American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature conference in Baltimore, Maryland, November 2013, that are relevant to Transpositions readers: 1) “‘A New Way of Doing Theology’: […] -
![One of the many nightmarish global crises indexed in the pages of the New York Times this past week was the identification of an almost universally neglected bogeyman: Optimism. According to Roger Scruton, writer and Professional Fellow in Moral Philosophy […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/roger-scruton-16-70dpi-photographer-by-pete-helme-115x115.jpg "A Persistent Pessimism: On Roger Scruton’s “Why Are Pessimists Ignored?”")
A Persistent Pessimism: On Roger Scruton’s “Why Are Pessimists Ignored?”
Posted on 03/04/2013 | 1 CommentOne of the many nightmarish global crises indexed in the pages of the New York Times this past week was the identification of an almost universally neglected bogeyman: Optimism. According to Roger Scruton, writer and Professional Fellow in Moral Philosophy […] -
![Editor’s Note: In this 3-part series, Christopher R. Brewer and Cole Matson consider Ed’s Story, a series of short films. In Part 1, Brewer introduces the series via David Brown’s Through the Eyes of Saints. In Part 2, Matson will discuss […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Photo-on-12-10-12-at-12.36-PM-115x115.jpg "Through the Eyes of Ed Dobson: A Contemporary Saint Biopic")
Through the Eyes of Ed Dobson: A Contemporary Saint Biopic
Posted on 04/03/2013 | 1 CommentEditor’s Note: In this 3-part series, Christopher R. Brewer and Cole Matson consider Ed’s Story, a series of short films. In Part 1, Brewer introduces the series via David Brown’s Through the Eyes of Saints. In Part 2, Matson will discuss […] -
![Editor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 5–part series on Daniel A. Siedell by Christopher R. Brewer. Part 1 – A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Mean–Evangelical Style” was published 24 September. Here, in Part 2, […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Siedell.1-115x115.jpg "A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Explanation”")
A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Explanation”
Posted on 17/10/2012 | No CommentsEditor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 5–part series on Daniel A. Siedell by Christopher R. Brewer. Part 1 – A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Mean–Evangelical Style” was published 24 September. Here, in Part 2, […]
![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}