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Discerning the Christian Imagination: Analogies and Proportion

Discerning the Christian Imagination: Analogies and Proportion

This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Christian Imagination You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.

If Christians should grow in their ability to discern superior Christian works of imagination, how should they do this? Must every Christian pursue some kind of music appreciation, literary criticism or aesthetic theory in order to recognise Christian from non-Christian or sub-Christian imagination? Likely not, though no Christian should scorn the pursuit of knowledge, wisdom… Continue Reading

Analogy and God Talk

Analogy and God Talk

One of the first things we discover when we begin reading the Bible is that we are not God. He is the Creator and we are the created, and between Creator and created stands an infinite, qualitative difference. So pronounced is this difference that some people despair of ever speaking meaningfully about God. They reason that human languages were invented to discuss… Continue Reading