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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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Literature
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Are labels useful? or, why I’m not sure about “Christian” Literature
Posted on 06/10/2010 | 15 CommentsEvery now and then, someone will challenge why I would consider thinking through literature theologically, or whether thinking about theological texts and scripture with all my skills and training in how to read literary texts is a valuable occupation for... -
Gospel Echoes in Fantastic Fiction: Part Two (of Two)
Posted on 27/09/2010 | 2 CommentsTravis Buchanan just completed his M.Litt. at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews and is beginning research for his PhD. Resuming where we left off in part one of this post, we... -
Is Tolkien Useless?
Posted on 14/09/2010 | 24 CommentsCole Matson is a Theology finalist at the University of Oxford. He writes about Christianity and theatre at The Unicorn Triumphant. During his talk during Tuesday’s first conference session, Prof Richard Bauckham critiqued Prof David Brown’s emphasis on fictional characters... -
Literature and Religion (and Theology)
Posted on 07/09/2010 | 5 Comments“The dreadful thing about so much theology is that, in relation to the reality of the human situation, it is so superficial. Theological categories (really mere theological formulae) are ‘armed without sufficient depth of understanding insensitively misunderstood. Theologians need therefore... -
Blindsided by Lord Tennyson
Posted on 24/08/2010 | 2 CommentsOne of the pivotal moments in the 2010 Academy Award Winner Blindside comes in the form of a response to an Alfred Tennyson poem. Blindside is in the fine tradition of the bildungsroman*. In Blindside, Big Mike (Quinton Aaron) has... -
Machines for Living: Their Ongoing Impact
Posted on 22/07/2010 | No CommentsI recently watched Brick Lane, a film adaptation of the novel by Monica Ali. Set in the East End of London, the film (and the book) engages with important political and cultural themes of arranged marriage, immigration, extremist religion, revenge,... -
Illuminating the Bible
Posted on 07/07/2010 | No CommentsWhen I was young, one of my parents would end our meal together by pulling me up on their lap and reading a story from the Bible Story Book, a big blue book full of illustrations. These illustrations may not...
