Whilst quoting Bosch in the previous post I was reminded of his tensions between "theoria (truth) , praxis (justice) and poiesis" - it is the poiesis bit we don't think about that often...
Stackhouse (quoted in Bosch) describes it as "the imaginative creation or representation of evocative images"...
Wikipedia says... "Poïesis means “to make” in ancient Greek.(creation, from poiein, to make) This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation in the romantic sense, poïetic work reconciles thought with matter and time, and man with the world."
...truly a divine characteristic! One for church to strive and stretch for!
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Stumbled on this and really liked waht I read. Im mad into the hidden truth/revelation behind definition/etymology. A related word is used by Paul when he describes us as God's Workmanship -God's poem.
Posted by: John McKeever | 12/01/2006 at 05:42