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“Capital T truth is dead.”

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Don Cupitt is a British writer known for his critical thinking on religion and philosophy. His work covers areas such as religious philosophy, ethics, and the evolution of modern religion. more

“We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I think the thing we're waiting for is a genius to come forth who can either make a new symbol system which is still modern, or more properly, as symbol systems don't come overnight, a group of people to modify the symbol systems of our day, so that we can use them for our Christian message without a disadvantage.”

People Thinking Giving Made Stills Use Christian Culture Waiting Christianity Groups Modern Genius Messages Symbols Worldview Dilemma Disadvantages

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.”

Used Artist Culture Courses Language Interest Christianity Audience Materials Genius Taste Capacity Accounts Paint Indifference Laziness Ignored Strict Marble Incompetence Tamed Haughty

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.”

Seems Age Christian Desire Artist Culture Christianity Generations Fashion Stupid Late Picks Tradition Oneself Relevant Secular Short Sighted Unchristian

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.”

“Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.”

World Years Has Beens Stills Enough Law Land Speech Innovation Slogans Free Society Malls

Author:Thomas Frank

“People have to know that there are options available to us today. There is another way, and it is practical and applicable now.”

People Knows Way Today Available Practicals Another Way

Author:Daryl Hannah

“The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.”

Needs Humans Eye Human Beings Seeing Creatures Invisible Visible

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.”

May Eye Lord Seeing Tragedy Wake Up Invisible Visible Spit

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.”

Dream Vision Seeing Metaphor Invisible Visible Parables Ordinariness

Author:Luci Shaw

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