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Daily Archives: July 20, 2008
Severe Hawkeye: Albrecht Durer Paints His 70 Year Old Father
“Marble heavy, a bag full of God.” –Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, art, fathers, Germany, God, God the Father, image, painting, photo, Santi Tafarella, Sylvia Plath
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History, Myth, or Something in Between: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about the Genre of the Gospels, But Were Afraid to Ask
When we look at the gospels, an important literary question that immediately confronts us is this: What genre (broadly speaking) are they written in? In other words, are we reading history, myth, or some combination of the two? Obviously, such … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Bible, Christianity, Jesus, John Macarthur, literature, miracles, mythology, New Testament, philosophy, Santi Tafarella
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“Hip”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
beneath the sour apple tree you will knob my more of tone and fin we will bop and lie in wraps and yalp and moan your ribs i’ll finger like a harp and you … Continue reading
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Tagged Eden, Genesis, life, literature, love, poem, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella, sex, sexy
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Blame it On the God of Poetry?: Is an Emotionally Charged Metaphor the Real Reason You Say That You Believe in God—Or Say That You Don’t?
Is metaphor-charged experience behind the power of conversion? When the Apostle Paul, in Romans 1:18-20, says that God reveals himself “plainly” to us by a direct apprehension of nature and the heavens, might we shift focus and have an equally visceral … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, Alvin Plantinga, apostle Paul, atheist, Christianity, intelligent design, literature, philosophy, poetry, problem of evil, religion, Santi Tafarella
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“Nothing Staged Can Stay”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
before the night’s glittering black curtain the Father of dung beatles moves the moon
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Tagged astronomy, biology, drama, evolution, life, literature, moon, night, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella, woman
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