48 min
You Are A Tree: Metaphor & the Poetry of Our Humanity / Joy Marie Clarkson For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
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- Christianity
Theologian Joy Marie Clarkson (King's College London) discusses her most recent book, You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer. Together we discuss: How we see ourselves as human: Are we trees? Are we machines? The beauty of language and the glory of poetry to reveal intangible or invisible wisdom and experience. Joy explains the hidden negation in metaphors and the dance between subjective convention and objective realities. And we explore the many metaphors that seem to undergird Christian theological reflection on flourishing life.
Theologian Joy Marie Clarkson (King's College London) discusses her most recent book, You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer. Together we discuss: How we see ourselves as human: Are we trees? Are we machines? The beauty of language and the glory of poetry to reveal intangible or invisible wisdom and experience. Joy explains the hidden negation in metaphors and the dance between subjective convention and objective realities. And we explore the many metaphors that seem to undergird Christian theological reflection on flourishing life.
48 min