2021 Plenary Talk | 53:59 | Academics & Curriculum, Culture & Faith, Literature, Philosophy
Summary
I think that it is a matter of the utmost urgency that Christians reclaim the high ground of the imagination, and that they will not do so with any reliability or effectiveness if they neglect the universal human art, and the art that concentrates more power in a small space than does any other, and that is poetry. We are fortunate, in a way, that the enemies of the faith have also abandoned that mountaintop, so we have no competition
Speaker
Dr. Anthony M. Esolen is a writer, social commentator, translator of classical poetry, and professor and writer-in-residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts. He graduated from Princeton University and received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Furman University, Providence College, and the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. Esolen’s numerous books include: Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture; Defending Boyhood: How Building Forts, Reading Stories, Playing Ball, and Praying to God Can Change the World; The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization; Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child; and Reflections on the Christian Life. In addition to his books, he is the author of numerous articles in such publications as Modern Age, Chronicles, Claremont Review of Books, Public Discourse, First Things, Crisis Magazine, The Catholic Thing, and Touchstone, for which he serves as a senior editor, along with a host of other online journals.
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