It was a great pleasure to return to guest lecture at the Trinity Theological College and to meet a roomful of thoughtful students seeking a holistic theological view of arts and culture today. All of them are readers and some of them are writers. I spoke about literature's foundational impact on culture, poetry as the "chiselled marble of language" (Ann Shalaski) and went deep into its mechanics and magic, introduced the writings of William Franke ("the Bible is both revelation and humanities text"), posited common problems of interpretation, and shared thoughts about the writer's vocation. A student asked for examples of writers with the Christian worldview, and I mentioned JRR Tolkien, Flannery O'Connor, TS Eliot, Eugene Peterson, Malcolm Guite, Edwin Thumboo, Eric Valles and some others. - AMDG, Aaron
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