From: "Lance Muir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jt:'And well it (the imagination) should be'???
DearG:Might you be so kind as to provide a 'word'
(No, forget that I said A WORD) on the role of the imagination in the life
of every human being? You are TT's most imaginative contributor.
jt: Why ask G, I gave up trying to figure
out what he is talking about long ago. He might be a nice guy but he is no
communicator, what's the point of talking to yourself on a public list?
Isn't this why Paul did not use sophisticated words of man's wisdom? He spoke
plainly using words everyone could understand.
Narrative comprises most of the Older Testament.
Jesus employed 'story-telling'. I've come late to the table on this one. Think
of Iris Murdoch (philosopher), John Bunyan (Pilgrim's Progress), Les Miserable,
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Edgar Allen Poe, JRRTolkien's masterful trilogy
etc....
Critiquing the imagination? Hello? Where would we
be without it? We employ it in virtually every communication we
make.
jt: The only one worth anything on the above
list IMO is Bunyan. Poe was a cocaine addict taken over by the dark side and as
for Tolkien, he was a misguided RC - I am still kicking myself for being
naive enough to buy his trilogy at a Christian Bookstore when our son was 11 or
12yrs old; he was immediately fished into that fantasy world and hasn't
come out yet. Hopefully he draws the line at Harry Potter.
Perhaps the TT participlant with the most
rationalistic bent is David but, I'd guess he read many great stories to his
children when they were 'of an age to be read to'. (David: yes/no Smile David,
it's not a 'shot' - I think).
jt: It's advised that we put away childish
things, especially those that are destructive and anyway reality in Christ is
way more exciting. Receiving the power to overcome temptation, bondage,
and spiritual death rather than to be entertained by it. judy
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