#172 | Transfigure Your Imagination, Pt. 2 | Malcolm Guite
Those Who Serve The Lord
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The Newtonian Image of the World
Coleridge said that the Newtonian image of the world is a mechanical thing operating by laws and like a piece of clockwork. He says, if we want an analogy, but the relationship between creator and creation and us as as perceivers in praise of beauty of creation, then he says, it's much more like a text. So what Coleridge thought was that God's gift of primary imagination in all of us allows us to perceive his world. But he thought that since the enlightenment, we had actually created, we're not reading God's poem, when we're functioning an idol of our own.
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