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The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama: A Review
Posted on 30/11/2010 | 7 CommentsChristine C. Schnusenberg, The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama: The Eucharist as Theater (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2010). “In the beginning there was theater.” As the last chapter title in the book, this phrase provides a fitting thesis for the... -
![A review of In The Beginning is the Icon: a Liberative Theology of Images, Visual Arts and Culture by Sigurd Bergmann, translated by Anja K. Angelsen (London: Equinox, 2009). [originally published in Swedish in 2003] In his foreward, Nicholas Wolterstorff...](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/in-the-beginning-is-the-icon-1-115x115.jpg "In The Beginning is the Icon: A Review")
In The Beginning is the Icon: A Review
Posted on 23/11/2010 | 1 CommentA review of In The Beginning is the Icon: a Liberative Theology of Images, Visual Arts and Culture by Sigurd Bergmann, translated by Anja K. Angelsen (London: Equinox, 2009). [originally published in Swedish in 2003] In his foreward, Nicholas Wolterstorff... -
Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with the Eyes of God – A Review
Posted on 16/11/2010 | 1 CommentA Review of Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with the Eyes of God by Clemena Antonova (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010). In an impressive display of depth of understanding, scholarly citation, and engagement with both fascinating and... -
Faith, Hope and Poetry: A Review
Posted on 09/11/2010 | No CommentsTransposition is very much what poetry and all literary art is about. To hear snatches from the huge unknowable symphony of experience, to catch them and transpose them to a key that resonates with our understanding, so that at some... -
Hipster Christianity: A Review
Posted on 02/11/2010 | 12 CommentsA review of Hipster Christianity by Brett McCracken (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 2010) Brett McCracken’s exploration of ‘Hipster Christianity’ has been the subject of much discussion in recent months. In September, my blog co-contributor Greg Stump published a post... -
For the Beauty of the Earth: A Review
Posted on 26/10/2010 | 2 CommentsA Review of Bouma-Prediger, Steven. For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010.) The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first has seen a dramatic rise... -
Performing the Sacred: A Review
Posted on 19/10/2010 | 4 CommentsTodd E. Johnson and Dale Savidge, Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), £12.99/$21.99, ISBN 080102952X. Looking for links and analogies between a particular artistic medium and theology can be greatly rewarding. It can...
