In this episode I am joined again by the poet-priest-scholar Malcolm Guite for a wonderful wide discussion about imagination, Christianity, the relative success of Britain's blending of Christian and pagan stories in contrast with the 'missed opportunity' (so far) in the Americas, and finally, the intoxicating world of King Arthur.
Contents
00:29 – Introduction
02:53 – Malcolm's new book “Lifting the Veil – Imagination and the Kingdom of God"
03:41 – The imagination as “a truth-bearing faculty”
18:56 – Pondering the 'emergence/emanation' framework of Vervaeke, VanderKlay, Pageau, and...Shakespeare?
25:10 – Christ and the artistic, moral, and prophetic imagination
38:04 – The reassuringly honest depiction of bewilderment of the disciples in the gospels
43:24 – 'Credo ut intellegam: I believe in order to understand'
50:19 – A brief intermission to pour scotch
51:23 – Contrasting the appealing fusion of the Christian and pagan in Britain with a missed opportunity in the Americas
1:14:34 – Malcolm shares his love of the King Arthur stories, the legend which can't be hacked down
1:27:01 – How does a poet continue the tradition of adding to the Arthurian storytelling today?
Malcolm's new book:
https://www.squarehalobooks.com/lifting-the-veil
His blog:
https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/blog/
His Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXat06LvIYIyE2SpV_IuVjA
More links to poems and other things mentioned in this conversation here on TheCommonToad site:
https://www.thecommontoad.com/single-post/conversations-malcolm-guite-lifting-the-veil-and-keeping-the-flowering-thorn