Avoiding Deadly Doctrine
“It is the immemorial dream of the talentless that a sufficient devotion to doctrine will produce art.” -David Mamet, Theatre The American playwright and…
There Are No Spectators: Participatory Theatre and Performing the Faith
In participatory theatre, everyone involved produces a work that no one could accomplish alone. Is it the same when we are performing the faith?
Synoptic Imagination
Wesley Vander Lugt is editor of Transpositions and a PhD candidate at the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts, researching the relationship between…
Imagination Symposium: An Introduction
He is risen! He is risen indeed! This pronouncement echoing around the globe on this day constitutes the core of the Christian gospel. And…
The Context of Art
~By James McCullough and Wes Vander Lugt In two previous posts, we articulated an understanding of art as a communicative creation involving three interwoven…
Chapter Four: Do the arts make us better?
Review of Chapter 4 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from…
The Content of Art
~James McCullough and Wes Vander Lugt Defining art is an elusive task. In some ways, seeking to understand art is analogous to understanding God….