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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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Criticism and Philosophy
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Courting Camp: An Everyday Aesthetic
Posted on 10/06/2013 | No CommentsWhen postmodernity marked the “aestheticization” of reality, the lines between high and low culture collapsed and a sensibility devoted to seeing the world as a theater for aesthetic experience sprang into being. Camp, as inventoried in Susan Sontag’s seminal 1964... -
Trinitarian Creativity: Creation, Self and Originality
Posted on 05/06/2013 | No CommentsCan we add anything to the universe? Can we give anything back to God that he has not already given to us? When we try to answer these questions, we sometimes feel torn between two extremes. On the one hand,... -
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The Cult, Fear, and Myth of the New: Three (conflicting) Narratives
Posted on 03/06/2013 | 6 CommentsIn a recent article titled How to Discourage Artists in the Church, Philip G. Ryken suggests that ‘[m]any Christian artists live between two strange worlds,’ caught between the oddities of the art world and the church world. Ryken writes about how... -
Entertaining Ourselves: Communal Creativity and Life Together
Posted on 22/05/2013 | No CommentsWe used to entertain ourselves. Anyone who has read Jane Austen knows that in the evenings of the era, people would gather in the drawing room to listen to others play or sing; other times there might be community dances... -
Making Room for Others: Creative Genius and Theology
Posted on 29/04/2013 | 11 CommentsThis post is long overdue, but I wanted to write it anyway. In a 2009 TED Talk titled “Your Elusive Creative Genius,” Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame spoke about the need for a way of thinking about artistic creativity that... -
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... -
Artists: Don’t Just Work; Be at Leisure!
Posted on 13/03/2013 | 3 CommentsAs a current 11th English teacher, I often have situations arise that give me new ways to consider the relationship between art, imagination, and the deeper meaning of life. For instance, recently I gave my students a creative assignment which...
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