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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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Worship and Identity: The Role of Beauty in the Church
Posted on 25/04/2013 | No CommentsA church service may look like a gathering of very ordinary people – with all our sins and weaknesses – but that is just what it looks like, not what it is. Wherever two or three are gathered in Christ’s... -
Finding Beauty through the Practice of Creating: An Artist’s Reflection
Posted on 24/04/2013 | 6 CommentsI am a painter, designer, curator and creative strategist living and working in Philadelphia who trained in painting and design at The University of the Arts. As someone who has helped people find God and beauty in their lives through... -
Engaging Contemporary Culture with the Beauty of Jesus
Posted on 23/04/2013 | No CommentsEven if beauty is hard to define and difficult to pinpoint, most people in contemporary culture seem compelled to engage with beauty in some way. We contemplate the awesome beauty of nature: in the bend of the river, the hues... -
Jeremy Begbie on Beauty
Posted on 22/04/2013 | 4 CommentsAmid the expanding bustle between theology and the arts, the topic of beauty seems to be ever more attractive. Among theologians it is proving especially popular. Many are questioning what Edward Farley calls the eighteenth century’s “relocation of beauty from... -
Introducing a Symposium on Beauty
Posted on 19/04/2013 | 2 CommentsThe concept of beauty in relation to theology and the arts is a slippery one. While sometimes a definition eludes, at other times it can be disregarded or over-stated. And yet, I remember sitting in a performance of Handel’s Messiah... -
A Spiritual Memoir in One Prayer: Thom Stark’s ‘Who Art in Heaven’
Posted on 15/04/2013 | 3 CommentsDirector Thom Stark has described his award-winning short film, Who Art in Heaven as simply a man praying. Indeed, it is no more than that. A man walks into a church repeatedly, sits in a pew, goes to the altar, stands... -
Review: The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood
Posted on 12/04/2013 | No CommentsSara Anson Vaux. The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012, v + 259 pp., £16.99/$24.00 paper. In the Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood, Sara Anson Vaux, Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University, presents...
