A Gesture in Kind
byNearly 450 years after his death, the artwork of Michelangelo is still making the news. This time as the subject of a study on…
Aesthetics & Liturgy
Beautiful Paradox: Humanity’s Participation in Christ
byIf the Christian faith is true, that is, if through the tragic event of the cross followed by the act of resurrection and ascension, God’s…
‘The Long Prologue to Transfiguration’; Dostoyevsky and the Aesthetics of Liturgical Performance
byGeorge Steiner asks us in his essay ‘Absolute Tragedy’, “What are we meant to make of the Father’s descent into or absence from time…
Reimagining the Function of Bioethics: Participating with Wisdom in the Story of Human Flourishing
byThere might not be any better way to describe Sophia than by articulating how the pursuit of, and encounter with, wisdom in thought and…
The Sign of the Cross: Participatory Aesthetics
byDr. Holly Ordway is Chair of the Department of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, and is the author of Not God’s Type: A Rational…
Censer, Crucifix, Candlestick: The Icon Trinity in the Mass
byPopular history in Protestant circles has often reimagined the medieval church as suffering from severe illiteracy in lay Christians. Images of Bibles chained to…
Introduction to Aesthetics and Liturgy Symposium
byNext week will see Transpositions host a symposium on Aesthetics and Liturgy, curated by Anna Blanch and Preston Yancey. Most broadly, liturgy can be…