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A Vast Bundle of Opportunities - An Exploration of Creativity in Personal Life and Community
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A Vast Bundle of Opportunities - An Exploration of Creativity in Personal Life and Community
Series: Routledge Revivals
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The conventional view of religion is that the basic truths were
settled long ago, that all we have to do is to accept them and
behave accordingly. Essentially then, there is no room for
originality. To be religious we have to be followers, adherents, to
be convinced, addicted, to be in a position to say: we are right,
you are wrong. In A Vast Bundle of Opportunities, originally
published in 1975, Kenneth Barnes maintains that this is a sterile
condition of mind. Religion is not a separate kind of experience;
it includes our whole selves and all that we do. It follows that if
art and science can be creative and originative, so also must
religion be, if it is real. If it is the Christian religion we are
thinking of, then to try to ‘imitate’ Jesus is to kill him
stone dead. To make him an ideal is to put him away. But to respond
to him is to come alive as creators and originators. The writer, as
the founder of an unusual kind of boarding school – Wennington
School, Wetherby – knows what it is like to live in the midst of
incessant enterprising activity; in his own life he knows what it
feels like to be a scientist, an artist, a craftsman. He asks if
there are ways we can deliberately choose by which we can become
originators. He takes the philosophy of John Macmurrray to show
what freedom could mean to us, and the more recent writings of
Arthur Koestler and Edouard de Bono to suggest that the obvious
development of creativeness in science can be encouraged in the
total approach to life and human problems. Life then becomes an
experience of endless discovery, a continual opening up of
possibilities.
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Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Revivals |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
First published: |
1975 |
Authors: |
Kenneth C. Barnes
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Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
188 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-259297-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-03-259297-4 |
Barcode: |
9781032592978 |
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