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The Formative Power of the Imagination with Karen Swallow Prior

The Formative Power of the Imagination with Karen Swallow Prior

FromOld Books with Grace


The Formative Power of the Imagination with Karen Swallow Prior

FromOld Books with Grace

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Oct 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Grace welcomes Karen Swallow Prior to discuss her brand-new book, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis (Brazos, 2023), and from that book, the power of imagination and our formation through literature and products of culture.
Karen Swallow Prior (Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo) is a reader, writer, and professor. She is the author of multiple books including The Evangelical Imagination, On Reading Well, and Fierce Convictions. She and her husband live on a 100-year old homestead in central Virginia with dogs, chickens, and lots of books. She writes on Substack at The Priory.
Released:
Oct 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (66)

Listening to the past can help us to understand our present. Dr. Grace Hamman, medievalist and writer, guides listeners to approach often intimidating works of literature and theology and learn to ask questions of our current age. Let‘s read old books together and discover truths about God and ourselves.