‘Is It Possible?’: The Problem of Evil (and Good) in the Films of Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman
What do horror movies have to do with religion, and with Christian faith in particular? What is worthwhile about a genre in which evil…
(Associate Editor) is a doctoral student at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews, under the supervision of Gavin Hopps. He is researching the theological implications of the fiction of Thomas Pynchon (1937- ), exploring his work as post-secular literature, and in relation to the Gothic tradition.
What do horror movies have to do with religion, and with Christian faith in particular? What is worthwhile about a genre in which evil…
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this, he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity. —…
Contrary to what we like to believe today, humans quite easily fall into obeying others, and any sufficiently advanced AI is indistinguishable from God….
My piece for the Enfolding exhibition, a series of drawings called ‘Fig Tree’, was born out of a desire to communicate visually some of…
Matthew Nelson reviews Mary McCampbell’s exciting new book on art and empathy for Transpositions. Mary W. McCampbell, Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art…
Over the next four weeks, Transpositions will be publishing a series of articles in which artists exhibiting in the Transept Interface exhibition reflect on their…
Matthew Nelson reflects upon Mike Flanagan’s new Netflix show, Midnight Mass, a masterful—and disturbing—tale in the Gothic tradition that engages questions of faith, religion…