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Lecture · video
With All Your Mind
Regent College · 2017
Vancouver, BC
YouTube embed · Regent College channel
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About this talk
In this lecture, Malcolm Guite explores the shaping power of the baptised imagination, drawing on Coleridge and Heaney to trace how imagination opens the mind and heart to truths that reason alone cannot reach.
Transcript
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00:00
Malcolm Guite
Thank you for that generous introduction, and thank you all for being here this evening.
04:12
I want to begin with a claim that will sound strange to modern ears: that imagination is not decoration for thought, but one of its most rigorous instruments.
15:30
Coleridge distinguished between the primary imagination, the living power common to all human perception, and the secondary imagination, which the poet consciously wields.
