Kester Brewin

Tag: Books

  • 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…

  • Thoughts on Newness and Creativity

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    In ‘The Meaning Of Jesus’ (see previous posts) Wright argues from 1Cor 15 that because Paul urges his readers to "be steadfast, unmoved, abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that in the Lord your work is not in vain" the ‘new creation’ that we are awaiting at the resurrection will in some ways…

  • Thoughts on Carson’s ‘Becoming Conversant…’ 2

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    More thoughts on a great missed opportunity… Carson states quite clearly in the book that ‘the Emerging Church is hard to put boundaries on’, and therefore many of his criticisms and affirmations ‘will simply not apply to everyone involved in the scene’. He also is keen to state that ‘much of the good going on…

  • Thoughts on Carson’s ‘Becoming Conversant…’ 1

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    I looked forward to reading this book. Carson is an intelligent man – it can surely only serve for good to get some debate going? But the tone quickly became clear: one rather gets the impression of an English professor critiquing his son’s primary school writing… Of the over-keen dad slamming in his best shots…

  • Theology or not…

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    As many of you blog-readers may know, there has been some sharp debate over whether The Complex Christ was ‘theological’ or not, with some arguing that it was simply sociological, and others wanting – as I do – to argue that as it attempted to speak about God (and thus allow God to speak) it…

  • Further Thoughts ‘On Aggression 2’ – Weapons, Technology and the Naked Ape

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    Lorenz writes: Though occasionally in territorial or rival fights, by some mishap a horn may penetrate an eye or a tooth an artery, we have never found that the aim of aggression was the extermination of fellow members of the species… However, it must be admitted that a slight deviation from nature, a coincidence that…