
Henri Nouwen, Now & Then Podcast | Malcolm Guite, "Lifting the Veil"
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The Power of Imagination
i started off by writing quite an academic book i wrote a you know like a purely academic book called faith hope and poetry theology. It's about reason and imagination being brought back together so because it was an academic book it had to be more reason than imagination in a way, says the poet. I thought of all these young creatives that you see all over the place trying to say where did this beautiful thing come from is there a god that that that that makes it valid well how could you know he also wanted to appeal to those people who've perhaps come out of highly regulated and legalistic churches which have been very mistrustful of the imagination or have kind of marginalized it. He thinks some
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