Rowan Williams, Grace and Necessity
Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist The 2005 Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge Lecture 1: Modernism and the Scholastic Revival. January 20, 2005. Yet the artist’s work is inescapably a claim about reality. It is not, that is to say, a new world depending on the play of an individual psyche any more than it is the expression of a specific project of the artist’s will. ‘Poetry is ontology’, Maritain asserts in his essay on ‘The Frontiers of Poetry’, it has to do with our knowledge of being itself. Any poetic utterance, any visible … Continue reading Rowan Williams, Grace and Necessity