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Foolish WisdomEngl 354: Day 3
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I Corinthians 1:17-2:16why might St. Paul, the author of I Corinthians, suggest it is better to preach the gospel without "eloquent wisdom" (v.17, ESV)?
for those of you with at least a passing familiarity with The Bible, what Christian principles can you identify that fly in the face of conventional wisdom and intelligence (v.18-25)?
what criteria must apparently be present, or absent, to be chosen by God (v.26-29)? Why, according to St. Paul?
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Dalí’s “Christ of St. John of the Cross” (1951)
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crucifixion sketch by St. John of the Cross (c.1550
[a counter-reformation reformer of the Carmelite Order]
Salvador Dalí’s first Christological work,
Christ of St. John of the Cross (1951)
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Salvador Dalí’s first Christological work,
Christ of St. John of the Cross (1951)
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Elements of Design
line: explicit or implicit boundaries
color: chroma (hue), saturation, white balance
value: lightness or darkness; range & contrast; low key vs. high key
shape: two-dimensional contours; geometric or organic
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Elements of Designform: 3-dimensional volume
often an illusion created by manipulating lighting, shading, and value
presence of shadows, interplay of light & dark
space: area between objects
positive vs. negative
illusion thru perspective, overlapping elements, size, etc.
fore, middle, & back ground
texture: tactile or visual; real or implied
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Principles of Designunity: harmony or chaos created by arrangement of elements
balance: symmetrical, asymmetrical, or radial balance
proportion & scale: relationship among elements (size, quantity)
emphasis: focal point, hierarchy
contrast: opposed elements
gradation: gradual shift in color (e.g. warm to cool) or tone (dark to light)
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“We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age . . .”
I Corinthians 2:6
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I Corinthians 2:14
“The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God
but considers them foolishness . . .”
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C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)a quick overview of a complicated life
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mother, Florence
Family
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mother, Florence
father, Albert
Family
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Family
mother, Florence
father, Albert
brother, Warnie
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mother, Flora
father, Albert
brother, Warnie
Janie Moore, friend & . . . ?
Family
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mother, Florence
father, Albert
brother, Warnie
Mrs. Moore, friend & more?
Joy Davidman, wife (1956-60)
Family
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Joy Davidman1946: finds God; reads CSL
1952: meets CSL in England
1953: divorce from Bill Gresham; relocates w/ boys
1956: April, civil marriage to CSL; Oct., cancer found
1957: church wedding; recov-ery & late honeymoon in ‘58
1960: death & A Grief Observed
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Arthur Greeves, school friend
Friends
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Arthur Greeves, school friend
J. R. R. Tolkien, prof
Friends
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Arthur Greeves, school friend
J. R. R. Tolkien, prof
Dorothy Sayers, novelist
Friends
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Arthur Greeves, school friend
J. R. R. Tolkien, prof
Dorothy Sayers, novelist
Father Walter Adams, confessor (1941-52)
Friends
–Society of St. John the Evangelist
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An Academic Life1908-10: Wynyard School
1911-13: Cherbourg School
1913-14: Malvern College
1914-17: private instruction in town Great Bookham
1917-23: University College, Oxford; earns rare “triple first” (1st in class) in classics, philosophy, & English literature
Magdalene College in 1920s
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An Academic Life1924-25: temp. teacher & lecturer (philosophy), Oxford
1925-54: tutorial fellow in English language & lit., Oxford
1930s: popular lectures
1940s: literary fame outside academia; peers’ disdain
1955-63: English “Chair” at Cambridge Magdalene College in 1920s
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A Winding Journey to Faith1908: mother’s death; disappearance of happiness
1913: the classics, the moderns, & a loss of faith
c.1913: wonder, desire, & “Northerness”—Arthur Rackham’s illustrations to two of Richard Wagner’s operas: Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods. Disbelief, but new war between reason & imagination . . .
1916: George MacDonald’s fantasy novel Phantastes, a “bright shadow,” & the baptism of CSL’s imagination
1917-18: the battlefields of France & a loud silence
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C. S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain (1940)
“Not many years ago when I was an atheist, if anyone had asked me, ‘Why do you not believe in God?’ my reply would have run
something like this . . .”
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Dark & Unimaginably Cold
universal expanse, novelty of life, conflict & death (1-2)
consciousness only leads to pain (2)
reason leads to longing, loss, & cruelty (2-3)
reality will end w/ the universe’s collapse; all human accomplishments and stories “will turn out in the end to have been a transitory and senseless contortion upon the idiotic face of infinite matter” (3)
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from C. S. Lewis’ autobiography Surprised by Joy (1955)
“A Young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his
reading. There are traps everywhere.”
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A Winding Journey to Faith
1917-23: study in philosophy, literature, humanities
1922: begins study of English lit. language & liter.
1924-25: tutors & lectures in undergrad philosophy, corrects examination papers for extra income
1925-27: teaches philosophy & English literature
1927-54: lecturing & tutoring in English at Oxford
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from C. S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain (1940)
“If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? . . . The direct inference
from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a
workman infinitely wise, staggers belief” (3).
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Claiming FaithTolkien’s counsel: reason, yes, but imagination too . . .
Step 1: noting the uncanny Numinous, & the difference between spiritual awe & biological fear (5-10)
Step 2: consciousness of a moral law “at once approved and disobeyed” (10-11)
Step 3: recognizing the non-intuitive connection between the Numinous & morality (11-13)
Step 4: Jesus Christ, “solving” the problem of pain, and identifying entropy’s true endgame (13-15)
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from C. S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain (1940)
“In a sense; [Christianity] creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is
righteous and loving” (14).
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Rejecting Faiththe justification for belief “does not amount to logical compulsion. At every stage of religious development man may rebel, if not without violence to his own nature, yet without absurdity” (14).
ignore the Numinous (14)
regard moral law as an illusion (14-15)
“refuse to identify the Numinous with the righteous, and remain a barbarian, worshipping sexuality, or the dead, or the lifeforce, or the future” (15).
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A Few Key TextsThe Space Trilogy of novels (1938, 1943, 1945)
The Problem of Pain (1940)
radio talks, later Mere Christianity (1941-44; 1952)
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56)
Surprised by Joy (1955) & Till We Have Faces (1956)
A Grief Observed (1961)
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A Few Core Concepts
free will & likelihood of suffering (Problem 19, 24)
ecumenical, or “mere” Christianity (Problem xii)
translating theology into the vernacular
allegory a matter of philosophical necessity
faith requires reason & imagination alike
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Divine Omnipotence(chp. 2 of The Problem of Pain)
omnipotence: power to do the intrinsically possible (18)
free will requires independent natural laws that are relatively fixed, miracles notwithstanding (19-23, 25)
free will enables competition as well as courtesy (24)
if God corrected all human abuses, free will would disappear (24-25)
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from C. S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain (1940)
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you
have excluded life itself” (25).