Muses of a Fire: Essays on Faith, Film, and Literature – Discourses on Minerva
My newest book is available for purchase. Muses of a Fire: Essays on Faith, Film, and Literature.
Western culture has a rich and vibrant legacy of literature, art, music, and more recently, film. They can be touchpoints for the soul. Themes woven through the centuries have created a tapestry that offers much for the eye, the ear, and the soul. Perhaps the greatest theme is that of love which is experienced by individuals as a reflection of the love of God.
In fifteen essays the author writes of the beauty and marvel of the West’s cultural interaction with the idea of love in its many manifestations—love and power, love and science, love and technology. Culture is more than materialism and humans are more than the biological sum of atoms.
People such as Dante and Dostoevsky, Augustine and Austen, Lucas and Lewis, and Shakespeare and a score of others remind us of the power of creativity to enrich culture and the soul. Through these essays we understand better what it means to flourish as individuals created in and bearing the image of God.
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the author of Muses of a Fire, Finding Arcadia, The Odyssey of Love and the Politics of Plato, and a contributor to the College Lecture Today and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters. He holds master’s degrees in philosophy and religious studies (biblical studies & theology) from the University of Buckingham and Yale, and a bachelor’s degree in economics, history, and philosophy from Baldwin Wallace University.
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