“As ideational and integral art are static in their inner nature, sensate art is vividly, even violently dynamic. The phenomena of the sensate world is always changing. Light and shadow vary, color and form shift in ceaseless flux. Human subjects, too, show incessant variation. The art must be dynamic simply to follow its subjects. Equally …
Imagine That
“The Christian imagination is not icing for the cake of education. A true understanding of the imagination is at the center of all true education . . . Works of imagination are not the dessert of educaqtion; they are the meal. We have to get the students to master some basic details so that they …
Torn
“This is the paradox of the human self, the mysterious unity of self-centeredness and other-centeredness in all human beings. Even though the two drives go in opposite directions and can never become complementary, they are always combined and their combination binds people inextricably to one another, even as it tears them apart internally and externally. …
A Fourth Decade of Psalms/Psalm 35
Introduction: We come now to a psalm of imprecation. They do not represent the entire psalter, but they are a significant part of it. Of particular note would Psalms 7, 69, and 109. What are we to do with them? Well, among other things, sing them. Our aversion to the psalms of imprecation has more …
Failure of Faith and Nerve
This portion of Deuteronomy has great importance for the writers of later portions of Scripture. The theme of this passage is a constant—as long as we must exercise faith in God in a world where His adversaries must be attacked. “And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, …
If We Had Some Cheese
Westfold argues that Derrida is some kind of a natural law theorist. We can ascertain this from the title of chapter 11, “Derrida As Natural Law Theorist.” Westfold draws a distinction between logical positivists and postmodernists, a distinction that he considers important. The logical positivists said of their own position that it destroyed all ethics …
Start With Prayer
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 95 “Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established” (Prov. 16:3). It is important for us to dedicate our business to God. Unless the Lord builds the house, the one who builds it labors in vain. …
Art Goes to Seed
“In the sensate style, techniques become elaborate, complex, highly skilled, often showy. They are designed to impress, even to stun viewers. The means used to produce sensate art are varied and enormous in scope. Often a work’s mere size—its hugeness—passes for quality; the bigger a statue or building, the better it is thought to be. …
Truth Has A Face
“However, the biblical story is pretty unwieldy and remains storylike despite our best efforts. But over the course of the last 350 years, we have risen to the occasion and have trained ourselves to think of the story as just so much external baggage carrying around the internal, timeless truths. Depending on how the story …
What Do You Mean “Everybody Doesn”t Think About This All the Time”?
“All individuals beset by mimetic desire are easily fooled into believing that the entire world shares their obsession with their current rival” (Girard, A Theater of Envy, p. 115).