Orthodox Education and Evangelism in a Post-Christian Landscape

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Story: Language, Imagination and Mythic Literature (Part 2)

Maximus Cannaverde

I’ve been discussing the role that story and the imagination plays in education. Does the imagination fuel delusional, idolatrous phantasy, or does it cultivate the fertile ground of meaning for the reception of truth? If you haven’t done so already please read the first part of this series here so […]

Story: Cultivating Imagination, or Phantasy (Part 1)

Maximus Cannaverde

In the previous post I talked about the transcendentals–truth, goodness and beauty. Specifically, regarding truth I referred to C.S. Lewis and how the cultivation of the imagination creates the fertile ground of meaning for truth to take root. Concerning this idea, Lewis was greatly indebted to Scholasticism, wherein the imagination […]