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Transpositions is the official blog of the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. Featured Posts
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Of Pilgrims and Fire: A Review
Posted on 08/02/2011 | No CommentsRoy Anker, Of Pilgrims and Fire: When God Shows Up at the Movies (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2010) Of Pilgrims and Fire actively encourages Christians to consider seriously the relationship between theology and film. Appealing to... -
The Melody of Faith: Theology in an Orthodox Key- A Review
Posted on 03/02/2011 | 2 CommentsA Review of The Melody of Faith: Theology in an Orthodox Key by Vigen Guroian (Eerdmans, 2010) In this book, Guroian presents his readers with a fresh look at Orthodox Christian faith. The description on the back cover of the... -
Commissioning: Revitalising the Church through Art?
Posted on 28/01/2011 | 4 CommentsIn an earlier post, I drew our attention to the recent increase in church commissioning of the arts within the UK. This renaissance of sorts led a British journalist to see the arts as a potential means of church revitalisation... -
Inclusive Yet Discerning: Navigating Worship Artfully – A Review
Posted on 26/01/2011 | No CommentsA review of Inclusive Yet Discerning: Navigating Worship Artfully by Frank Burch Brown (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009). In this book, Frank Burch Brown tackles an important issue in the conversation of theology and the arts, namely what art is ‘appropriate’... -
Review of Real Presence: In Search of the Earliest Icons
Posted on 07/12/2010 | 1 CommentReal Presence: In Search of the Earliest Icons, by Sister Wendy Beckett, (Continuum, 2010) 138 pages, £12.99. Reviewed by James McCullough. “Some time ago, to my astonishment, I discovered the eight icons of the Virgin that have survived from the... -
Imagining Tradition: Evangelicals and Book Cover Art
Posted on 03/12/2010 | 5 CommentsJames McCullough is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews. His research explores the relationship between works of visual art and spiritual formation. Jim lives on a farm near St Andrews with his wife and four children.... -
The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama: A Review
Posted on 30/11/2010 | 7 CommentsChristine C. Schnusenberg, The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama: The Eucharist as Theater (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2010). “In the beginning there was theater.” As the last chapter title in the book, this phrase provides a fitting thesis for the...
