“Images in the perceived world figured even the ‘irradiations,’ the communicable glories of God, Who is portrayed in Bradstreet more as a wise and loving parent than as the celestial lunatic so often foisted off on the Puritans by their modern detractors” (Daly, p. 91).
It’s Just That We Don’t Have a Screen That Big At Home
“Ironically, concerts today usually feature giant video screens so that fans can see the live performance up close by means of TV! Reality and reproduction are thus, in the postmodernist way, hopelessly confused” (Gene Edward Veith, Postmodern Times, p. 105).
Proves Evolution
“This is true in the realm of science, so believers must assert the account of a six-day creation in Genesis, and reject the various mythologies surrounding evolution, and do so root and branch (Rom. 5:14; 1 Tim. 2:13-14). Few things are as funny as the spectacle of grown men asserting a family resemblance between a …
Love of the Senses
“Bradstreet’s prose statements place her within the tradition of orthodox Puritans who loved the sensible world but knew that it could not compare with its Maker” (Daly, p. 88).
Art is Whatever an Artist Can Get Away With
“The significance of the work of art often inheres not in the work itself, but in the chutzpah of the artist” (Gene Edward Veith, Postmodern Times, p. 101).
A Long River
“With this in mind, the point is to recall the reader to the ancient biblical faith, which, as it has fought faithfully down through the ages, has acquired many different names as the war progressed — Catholics, Waldensians, Huguenots, Calvinists, Methodists, Puritans. Some names have been corrupted and lost, and others made irrelevant by the …
God’s Own Metaphor
“Puritan poets . . . knew that part of their work in this world was to wean their affections from the unmixed love of it. But they also knew that this world was God’s metaphor for His communicable glories and that another part of their duty was to see and utter that metaphor, to use …
Flat On Purpose
“Whereas modern artists assume that the artist, like all human beings, is a unified personality, postmodernists work from the assumption that self-identity is itself an illusion. Modernists, believing the artist is a unique individual, strive for a unique style. Postmodernists work with a collage of different and often recycled and mass-produced styles. Modernists are ‘deep,’ …
Where is the Olive Tree?
“And this is why we remember the words of Irenaeus who said, and said well, that ‘where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church.’ Where is the olive tree? The answer of Scripture is plain: Where there are olives” (Mother Kirk, p. …
Incarnation and Metaphor
“Indeed, the central and defining event in Christianity, the Incarnation of the invisible God in visible man was, like creation and all other metaphor, God’s act of making part of Himself available to the understanding of man . . . In Baxter’s prose, then, we find the theological rationale for the figures that constitute so …