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![The previous two pieces in this series have attempted to use the figure of the monster to draw out some of the flaws and contradictions in Enlightenment understandings of the self. The monster can be a powerful didactic tool in […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/461px-Frontispiece_to_Frankenstein_1831-115x115.jpg "Facing the Darkness III: Monstrous Ontology, Part I")
Facing the Darkness III: Monstrous Ontology, Part I
Posted on 03/12/2014 | 1 CommentThe previous two pieces in this series have attempted to use the figure of the monster to draw out some of the flaws and contradictions in Enlightenment understandings of the self. The monster can be a powerful didactic tool in […] -
![In my previous post, I introduced the epistemic shifts occurring across the theological, political and philosophical landscape of the early 1800s which gave rise to a new kind of theological expression, or, theo-literature. Writers from Schiller to Wordsworth to Coleridge […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/18490-115x115.jpg "Facing the Darkness II: The Gaps in the System")
Facing the Darkness II: The Gaps in the System
Posted on 19/11/2014 | No CommentsIn my previous post, I introduced the epistemic shifts occurring across the theological, political and philosophical landscape of the early 1800s which gave rise to a new kind of theological expression, or, theo-literature. Writers from Schiller to Wordsworth to Coleridge […] -
![“Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away,” Edited by Susan Srigley, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, 232 pps.. £17 / $28. Flannery O’Connor belies easy stereotype. Her deepest narratives rest in the broader story of […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/P01519-115x115.png "Review: “Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away”")
Review: “Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away”
Posted on 31/10/2014 | No Comments“Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away,” Edited by Susan Srigley, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, 232 pps.. £17 / $28. Flannery O’Connor belies easy stereotype. Her deepest narratives rest in the broader story of […] -
![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-115x115.jpg "Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored")
Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored
Posted on 03/03/2014 | 3 CommentsIn 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 […] -
![Sooner or later, the writer of creative fiction seems bound to ask just how free are my characters? Good writers strive to make their characters as free as possible – to give them a life of their own – and […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/transpositionssquare-115x115.jpg "Creativity as a Call to Virtue?")
Creativity as a Call to Virtue?
Posted on 02/09/2013 | 2 CommentsSooner or later, the writer of creative fiction seems bound to ask just how free are my characters? Good writers strive to make their characters as free as possible – to give them a life of their own – and […] -
![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 […] -
![Marilynne Robinson’s popular and critically acclaimed novels, Gilead and Home are masterpieces that deftly explore deep metaphysical questions with characters who search for meaning and redemption through Christian faith, engaging with issues of spiritual longing and fulfillment in a way […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Gilead-Photo-1-115x115.jpg "Summer Reading Recommendation: <i>Gilead</i> and <i>Home</i>")
Summer Reading Recommendation: Gilead and Home
Posted on 26/06/2013 | 4 CommentsMarilynne Robinson’s popular and critically acclaimed novels, Gilead and Home are masterpieces that deftly explore deep metaphysical questions with characters who search for meaning and redemption through Christian faith, engaging with issues of spiritual longing and fulfillment in a way […]
![In Visual Faith, William Dyrness entertains two questions concerning the uncomfortable, and at times awkward, relationship between beauty and goodness. The first: “Do pursuits of justice and beauty compete for our attention?”[1] And the second: “How can I enjoy quiet […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/100_1079-36x36.jpg "The Imagination between Beauty and Goodness"){kind=small}
![And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening. People writing songs that voices never share. And no one dared, Disturb the sound of silence. –Simon & Garfunkel, “The […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/great-silence-2-36x36.jpg "The Sound of Silence and the Silence of Sound: On Having Ears to Hear"){kind=small}
![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}