“We want life to have meaning, we want fulfillment, healing and even ecstasy, but the human paradox is that we find these things by starting where we are, not where we wish we were. We must look for blessings to come from unlikely, everyday places—out of Galilee, as it were—and not in spectacular events, such as the coming of a comet. Although artists and poets have not been notoriously reverent in the twentieth century…the aesthetic sensibility is attuned to the sacramental possibility in all things.”
Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries
Good one.
ReplyDeleteWish I could take your class...
Dr. Stearns,
ReplyDeleteI also wish I could take your class... all of these posts about improvisation and possibility are really interesting. Lately I've been wondering about "improv" in terms of drama (alongside music) as a theological idea, especially in relation to Vanhoozer and von Balthasar...
I'm a fellow Regent Christianity and the Arts alumnus, and currently a PhD student in theology and art at the Toronto School of Theology. I put a link to your blog on my blog... hope you don't mind! Would love to hear more about your take on theology, art and music sometime, hope the opportunity presents itself. Thanks!
Brett,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. It is great to connect with other Art and Christianity types. I'll make a comment on your blog soon!
-Chelle