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)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Correspondence theory & Updike’s “Seven Stanzas of Easter”
When considering the correspondence theory of truth in Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice (Christian Worldview Integration Series. InterVarsity Press. 2011), David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet refer to John Updike's Seven Stanzas at Easter (1960).* Enjoy this excerpt from a "bold, wonderfully learned manifesto ... [which] breathes a prophetic passion -- bracing, salutary and sometimes uncomfortable -- that transcends mere academic discussion and leaves the reader … [Read more...] about Correspondence theory & Updike’s “Seven Stanzas of Easter”