2022 Conference - Sarah Golsby-Smith - Romanticism and Knowing
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2022
- The 2022 Gospel Conversations conference has been considered a great success. This is the first talk to be released; an introductory talk by Dr Sarah Golsby-Smith on Romanticism and Knowing. As always Sarah’s talk is inspiring and offers a fresh look at theology through the lens of literature. In particular she argues that the Romantic era led the charge against ‘scientism’ in the 19th century and advocated ways of knowing that Esther argues are central to all real knowing. Sarah finishes with a wondrous unfolding of Coleridge’s epic poem on the imagination - ‘Frost at Midnight’
I cannot express how much this talk fills me with wonder - Would that it had the millions of views it so deserves...
Deep calling to deep - resonances that echo to the very bottom of things, herein lies the antidote to "the meaning crisis".
In spite of current appearances, the gates of hell that seek the abolition of man cannot prevail against the Truth that surfaces here, time and again - gently yet resolutely...
I had the good, providential, fortune to be listening to this while (at the same time) reading Malcom Guite's "Lifting the Veil" - and by this experienced a catalytic and eucatastrophic explosion of meaning.
Thanks so much for sharing this!
-wayne fair
Some of the most important talks, most beautiful, important and meaningful, life changing talks...take place in a little place in a little corner. What a treasure. I met Esther in seminary, she had a huge impact on my thought. Interesting to find her here...
"Coleridge is claiming that the idea of a Divine logos or cosmic word or rationality predisposed him to a return to Trinitarian theology. In his early notebooks we can find reference to such a principle that forms the basis of the idea of a correspondence between internal human reality and external transcendent spiritual reality:
'In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering thro’ the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking, a symbolical language for something within me that already and forever exist, rather than observing anything new. Even when that latter is the case, yet still I have always an obscure feeling as if that new phaenomenon were the dim Awakening of a forgotten or hidden truth of my inner nature/ It is still interesting as a word, a Symbol! It is Logos, the Creator! And the Evolver!'”
- Oxford Handbook - Douglas Hedley, Theology of Coleridge
Will each talk be made available for the 2022 Gospel Conversations Conference?
Thanks!