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![Editor’s Note: This is the third of a three-part series on the relationship between the artist and the church. The first post ran on 2 October and the second post ran on 23 October. In the second part of this […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/IMG_1601-36x36.jpg "Beyond Lines: The Relationship between the Artist and the Church [Part Three]")
Beyond Lines: The Relationship between the Artist and the Church [Part Three]
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Fault Lines: The Relationship between the Artist and the Church [Part Two]
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Ghost Lines: The Relationship between the Artist and the Church [Part One]
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![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 […] -
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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 […] -
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The Myth Made Fact in the Local Congregation
Posted on 31/05/2013 | No CommentsOne of the stumbling blocks that held C. S. Lewis back from embracing Christianity was his inability to understand how the death of an obscure Jewish rabbi two thousand years ago could have any impact on his life. Lewis found […] -
![Lance Gharavi, ed. Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith. New York/Oxon: Routledge, 2012. 248 pp., £90.00/$131.00 case bound. The contributors to this volume make the argument that theatre and performance studies should take religion seriously, admitting that religion is […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/coexist-115x115.jpeg "Reviews: Religion, Theatre, and Performance and Blake.Wordsworth.Religion.")
Reviews: Religion, Theatre, and Performance and Blake.Wordsworth.Religion.
Posted on 06/04/2013 | 1 CommentLance Gharavi, ed. Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith. New York/Oxon: Routledge, 2012. 248 pp., £90.00/$131.00 case bound. The contributors to this volume make the argument that theatre and performance studies should take religion seriously, admitting that religion is […] -
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Reviews: The Devil and Pierre Gernet & Dickens, Christianity and ‘The Life of Our Lord’
Posted on 09/03/2013 | No CommentsDavid Bentley Hart. The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012, xi + 172 pp., £16.99/$25.00 paper. David Bentley Hart is well-known for his works of non-fiction, including The Beauty of the Infinite and Atheist Delusions, but The Devil […] -
![Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams recently published a compact volume reflecting on the theological riches of Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, titled The Lion’s World: A journey into the heart of Narnia (SPCK, 2012). This book has been chosen to serve as […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Lions_World_2-1-195x300-115x115.jpg "Reflecting on the Lion’s World during Lent: Scripture and Literature in Conversation")
Reflecting on the Lion’s World during Lent: Scripture and Literature in Conversation
Posted on 25/02/2013 | No CommentsFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams recently published a compact volume reflecting on the theological riches of Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, titled The Lion’s World: A journey into the heart of Narnia (SPCK, 2012). This book has been chosen to serve as […]