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Friday, April 21, 2006

Festival of Faith and Writing ‘06: Luci Shaw

Festival of Faith and WritingYesterday poet Luci Shaw gave the opening keynote address at the Festival of Faith and Writing here at Calvin. She spoke of the importance of beauty.

“Beauty was one of the Platonic ideals,” along with truth and goodness, Shaw pointed out. C.S. Lewis referred to beauty as “patches of God-light” that shine into our lives.

But today, the church is stronger on doctrine and ethics than on thinking about and valuing beauty, Shaw said. “Sometimes, the pursuit of beauty is seen as a seduction” in the church. (And beauty can be, she added.) But we need to recover our language for beauty and our capacity for wonder.

Posted by Nathan Bierma on 04/21 at 11:57 AM
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