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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

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