Kester Brewin

Tag: Books

  • Does God Regret The Fall?

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    The idea in the previous post of there being limits on where we ought to live on earth was given another spin on a piece about whether creativity has limits: Rollo May: “Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose. The capacity to create ourselves, based…

  • “We Knock Upon Silence for an Answering Music”

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    May sees the creative act as an encounter between two poles. A dialectical process between the subjective pole – the artist – and the objective pole – that which the artist is contemplating. It is in the moment of encounter between them that newness occurs. He quotes Archibald MacLeish on this, who sees these two…

  • A Dirt Laureate?

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    “The poet”, Rollo May writes, “is a menace to conformity. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists are the possible destroyers of our nicely ordered systems. For the creative impulse is the speaking of the voice and the expressing of the forms of the preconscious and unconscious; and this is, by…

  • Stages of Faith – Anxiety, Church and the Freedom to Doubt

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    More from ‘The Courage to Create‘ by Rollo May – an excellent book on the psychology of creativity. May was conducting some research into the roots of anxiety, and based his study on groups of teenage mothers in a shelter in New York. He was pretty sure his hypothesis – that their anxiety would be…

  • Rebellion, Godliness and the Emerging Church

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    Just heading off to Greenbelt, so probably won’t be posting for the next few days… Will have this resonating in my mind as I go though – probably the most complete description of what Vaux was trying to do, what the book aims to encourage, and what I hope the Emerging Church succeeds in doing:…

  • The Courage to Create

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    Have just started reading The Courage to Create which was given to me last week. Prometheus, Adam and Eve, courage in the face of a changing society, creative archetypes… It’s been a very stimulating read so far discussing from a psychologist’s perspective where the creative impulse comes from. Publishers Weekly call it “A signal testimonial…