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Ambition and Identity: Interview with Bruce Huber

May 1, 2015 by Mark Hansard Leave a Comment

ESN continues its series of interviews with authors of  Faithful Is Successful,  with Mark Hansard  interviewing Bruce Huber.  You can read a  post on Bruce's  chapter in  Faithful Is Successful here  and a follow up post here.  Bruce Huber is an Associate Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Indiana, where he and his wife, Sarah, are raising their four children. He earned a B.A. in Political Science at Stanford University and a J.D. and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California … [Read more...] about Ambition and Identity: Interview with Bruce Huber

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: ambition, creativity, faculty interview, Faithful is Successful, identity, interviews

Scholar’s Compass: Myth Made Fact

February 12, 2015 by David Russell Mosley 1 Comment

Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 David Russell Mosley finishes his series on  how human creativity participates in God's creativity. Tolkien fans will enjoy Mosley's exploration of the idea of subcreation, articulated in  Tolkien's essay “On Faerie Stories.” Tolkien argued that human creativity is a gift from God to those made in His image, and that when a human writer imagines something, that writer is “sub creating,” crafting a fictional setting in a small and respectful imitation of God's creative … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass: Myth Made Fact

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: creativity, Faërie, gospel, J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar's Compass, Tree and Leaf

Scholar’s Compass: The Fantastic and the Real

February 8, 2015 by David Russell Mosley Leave a Comment

David Russell Mosley continues  a three part series exploring  how human creativity participates in God's creativity. Tolkien fans will enjoy Mosley's exploration of the idea of subcreation, articulated in  Tolkien's essay “On Faerie Stories.” Tolkien argued that human creativity is a gift from God to those made in His image, and that when a human writer imagines something, that writer is “sub creating,” crafting a fictional setting in a small and respectful imitation of God's creative abilities. The idea that we  in … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass: The Fantastic and the Real

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: creativity, Faërie, J.R.R. Tolkien, King Arthur, Scholar's Compass, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tree and Leaf

Scholar’s Compass: Creativity as Gift

February 5, 2015 by David Russell Mosley 2 Comments

David Russell Mosley generously shared Advent and Christmas reflections with us in 2014. Today, he begins a three part series exploring  how human creativity participates in God's creativity, a subject he explores as a scholar of theology and writer of poetry. Tolkien fans will enjoy Mosley's exploration of the idea of subcreation, articulated in  Tolkien's essay "On Faerie Stories." Tolkien argued that human creativity is a gift from God to those made in His image, and that when a human writer imagines something, that … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass: Creativity as Gift

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: creativity, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Milbank, Scholar's Compass

“Animals and Atoms”: The Creative Imagination and the Body of Christ (Scholar’s Compass)

November 6, 2014 by Angela O'Neal 5 Comments

So spacious is [Christ], so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies. --  Colossians 1:19-20, The Message Reflection I discovered my favorite subject during my sophomore year of college in Ms. Gaines' survey of British literature class. I didn't know why at the time, but Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley … [Read more...] about “Animals and Atoms”: The Creative Imagination and the Body of Christ (Scholar’s Compass)

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: creativity, Navigating Knowledge, Romantics, Scholar's Compass

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