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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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![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_1601-115x115.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]
Posted on 30/10/2013 | 2 CommentsEditor’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 […] -
![Stephen N. Fliegel, A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State State University Press, 2012, 136 pp., £36.50/$42.00 cloth. Alexander Nagel, The Controversy of Renaissance Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 376 pp., £45.50/$65.00 cloth. The […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Fliegel3-hr-237x300-115x115.jpg "Reviews: A Higher Contemplation, and The Controversy of Renaissance Art")
Reviews: A Higher Contemplation, and The Controversy of Renaissance Art
Posted on 11/10/2013 | No CommentsStephen N. Fliegel, A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State State University Press, 2012, 136 pp., £36.50/$42.00 cloth. Alexander Nagel, The Controversy of Renaissance Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 376 pp., £45.50/$65.00 cloth. The […] -
![I’m coming to you from St Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, and I’d like to speak a word on behalf of utilitarian art. As I walk around the grounds of the Abbey, which is also home to Benedictine College, I […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/St-Benedict-115x115.jpg "A View from the Monastery: On Behalf of Utilitarian Art")
A View from the Monastery: On Behalf of Utilitarian Art
Posted on 15/05/2013 | 4 CommentsI’m coming to you from St Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, and I’d like to speak a word on behalf of utilitarian art. As I walk around the grounds of the Abbey, which is also home to Benedictine College, I […] -
![Nearly 450 years after his death, the artwork of Michelangelo is still making the news. This time as the subject of a study on Neuroesthetics. Having been around only about a decade, the discipline of neuroesthetics is based on the […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Expulsion_del_paraíso-115x115.jpg "A Gesture in Kind")
A Gesture in Kind
Posted on 14/11/2012 | 9 CommentsNearly 450 years after his death, the artwork of Michelangelo is still making the news. This time as the subject of a study on Neuroesthetics. Having been around only about a decade, the discipline of neuroesthetics is based on the […] -
![In Engaging Art Prize: A Storied Theology of the Arts [Part Two], I suggested that a rightly Storied theology of the arts, one that acknowledges art as created good and redemptive word, maintains the tension between the uselessness and usefulness of art. Besides […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Siedell-115x115.jpg "A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Means–Evangelical Style”")
A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Means–Evangelical Style”
Posted on 24/09/2012 | 4 CommentsIn Engaging Art Prize: A Storied Theology of the Arts [Part Two], I suggested that a rightly Storied theology of the arts, one that acknowledges art as created good and redemptive word, maintains the tension between the uselessness and usefulness of art. Besides […] -
![Six years ago, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, a Gen X church plant merged with a 110-year-old congregation to form a new “missional community devoted to the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ.” Since then we have been in […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wrestling-angels-postcard-front-115x115.jpg "Practical Considerations for Hosting a Gallery in a Church")
Practical Considerations for Hosting a Gallery in a Church
Posted on 11/06/2012 | 2 CommentsSix years ago, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, a Gen X church plant merged with a 110-year-old congregation to form a new “missional community devoted to the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ.” Since then we have been in […] -
![At Blackhawk Church in Madison, Wisconsin we did a teaching series called “The Story.” The series was designed to tell the story of scripture from beginning to new beginning. We wanted to help people see that the story of the […]](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/FI_AC-115x115.jpg "Telling the Story")
Telling the Story
Posted on 08/06/2012 | 6 CommentsAt Blackhawk Church in Madison, Wisconsin we did a teaching series called “The Story.” The series was designed to tell the story of scripture from beginning to new beginning. We wanted to help people see that the story of the […]