This is a Focal Point Series book of which Gene Edward Veith, Jr. is the general editor. The subtitle of the book is “The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World.” Hunt takes the reader from the world of the Scriptures, given in verbal form, to the Reformation and then to the modern day. […]
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Technological Symbolism Over Substance
Postmodernism’s pragmatic instrumental view of language is why image is everything in our culture. Language is not neutral but a tool by which those in power or in control of the media can manipulate and construct reality.1 Timothy Phillips and Dennis Okholm I believe it was Confucius who said, “When words lose their meaning, people […]
Does Mind Matter?
Does Mind Matter? Who would not think, to see us compounding everything of mind and matter, that such a mixture is perfectly intelligible to us? Yet this is the thing we understand least; man is to himself the greatest prodigy in nature, for he cannot conceive what body is, and still less what mind […]
A Virtual Reality World
Men seek stronger sins or more startling obscenities as stimulants to their jaded sense . . . They try to stab their nerves to life, as if it were with knives of the priest of Baal. They are walking in their sleep and try to wake themselves up with nightmares. G.K. Chesterton The February 8, […]