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Mark MeynellUniversity of the Arts, May 2012


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Towards an INTEGRATED Christian Imagination

Introduction

Romans 12:1-2

Christian Life & Pagan Life

In view of mercy...

Luther: sola experientia fecit

theologum


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1. Theologians of the Imagination

Visionaries


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Visionaries


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Visionaries

Prophets


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2. The Visionary and Prophetic MandateTRUTH: Exposing the False, Reflecting the Real


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2. The Visionary and Prophetic MandateTRUTH: Exposing the False, Reflecting the Real

Flannery OConnorMy own feeling is that writers who see by thelight of their Christian faith will have, in thesetimes, the sharpest eyes for the grotesque, for theperverse and for the unacceptable Redemptionis meaningless unless there is a cause for it in theactual life we live, and for the last few centuriesthere has been operating in our culture the

secular belief that there is no such cause.


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2. The Visionary and Prophetic MandateTRUTH: Exposing the False, Reflecting the RealBEAUTY: Exposing the Idolatrous, Reflecting

the Wondrous


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THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oilCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears mans smudge and shares mans smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.And for all this, nature is never spent;

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs

Because the Holy Ghost over the bentWorld broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

GerardManleyHopkins

(from GodsGrandeur)


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2. The Visionary and Prophetic MandateTRUTH: Exposing the False, Reflecting the RealBEAUTY: Exposing the Idolatrous, Reflecting

the Wondrous

HOPE: Exposing the Baseless, Reflecting theFuture


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3. Tips from Brian Eno & Shostakovich!

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