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Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part II)
Posted on 16/04/2012 | 28 CommentsIn Part I, I suggested that words like ‘create,’ ‘creation’ and ‘creativity’ are dead metaphors because a robust theology of creation is no longer ‘mapped onto’ the human activities commonly referred to as ‘creative’. Then, I asked whether it might be... -
Embodying Art: Renewing Religion?
Posted on 03/04/2012 | 53 CommentsEverything we experience has to be embodied. Or, better, every experience we have can only be perceived, received, experienced by a sentient, embodied individual. That doesn’t mean to say that everything which could be experienced is experienced. Trees falling in... -
Encountering God Through Art: Some Issues
Posted on 26/03/2012 | 53 CommentsOften on this blog, we have talked about ways in which the arts might help us encounter God. In this, my last regular post on Transpositions, I thought I might summarize some of these central points, both as a matter... -
Review – Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Posted on 14/03/2012 | 16 CommentsReview of Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 186 pages. Beauty is a significant philosophical category for the study of art and theology. While significant, it can also be challenging to understand due to the... -
We Can Do Better: A Reply to John Starke
Posted on 22/02/2012 | 13 CommentsYou may have noticed that The Gospel Coalition has recently produced videos and blog posts that explore the relationship between Christianity and the arts. For an evangelical Christian who loves the arts, I am encouraged to see some evangelical leaders... -
Art, Incarnation and the Human Body
Posted on 17/02/2012 | 8 CommentsFrom Christmas to the Corpus Christi, the liturgical year keeps on reminding us about how the Word of God has assumed a human nature. We call this the “incarnation”, which means “to become flesh”. For at least two reasons, it... -
Wounded for Our Visual Transgressions…
Posted on 06/02/2012 | 7 CommentsGood 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 can be, I believe, a manifestation of the sacred. Religious kitsch, on the other hand, with...
