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Sent: November 23, 2004 07:23
Subject: [TruthTalk] Unilateral
Covenant?
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
Sent: November 23, 2004 06:10
Subject: [TruthTalk] Unilateral
Covenant?
From: "Lance Muir" <
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Suggestion:Combine
rationalism with imagination. The role of imagination in
biblical and
theological thinking is under rated.
jt: And well it should be lest we find at the end
that we are holding to a god of
our own imagination - a figment if you
will.
