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Aesthetic Experience and the Existence of God (Scholar’s Compass)

March 14, 2016 by Mark Hansard Leave a Comment

Reflection Recently I found myself reading excerpts from James Sire's book, Apologetics Beyond Reason. (You can read ESN's review here). As someone with a literature background myself, I found Sire's description of the purpose of literature, and an aesthetic experience through great literature as a pointer to the transcendent, very interesting. Sire says “When we read great literature’we are lifted out of ourselves into another world.” When we have an aesthetic experience through such literature, we have “direct … [Read more...] about Aesthetic Experience and the Existence of God (Scholar’s Compass)

Filed Under: Scholar's Compass Tagged With: aesthetic experience, Apologetics Beyond Reason, Gerard Manley Hopkins, intervarsity press, James Sire, Scholar's Compass

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