“For whatever else we feel, we certainly feel that we are looking out; out of somewhere warm and lighted into cold, indifferent desolation, out of a house onto the dark waste of the sea. But the medieval man felt he was looking in. Here is the outside. The Moon’s orbit is the city wall. Night opens the gates for a moment and we catch a glimpse of the high pomps which are going on inside… The motions of the universe are to be conceived not as those of a machine or even an army, but rather as a dance, a festival, a symphony, a ritual, a carnival, or all these in one. They are the unimpeded movement of the most perfect impulse towards the most perfect object.” – CS Lewis
P. Andrew Sandlin (of the Center for Cultural Leadership) recently delivered a lecture (on cultural engagement) in which he persuasively argued for an enchanted view of the universe, which is to say a Christian view of the cosmos. I highly commend Dr. Sandlin’s ministry generally, and the lecture specifically.
[…] highlighted the work of P. Andrew Sandlin, president of the Center for Cultural Leadership, before. I find Dr. Sandlin to be one of the most articulate, compelling, and capable defenders of a […]