In this last episode in this brief series on understanding creativity, we look at how analogy functions as the core of cognition; and conclude with a few thoughts on assessing whether our creative ideas are any good. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn

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164 | Understanding Creativity - 04 - Analogy

In this episode, we look at how meaning-finding and meaning-making work in relation to creativity with reference to Chekhov's famous so-called gun. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn 

163 | Understanding Creativity - 03 - Meaning

We're briefly exploring some dimensions of creativity in four short episodes. In this episode, we explore how creativity is tied to insight. In this episode we look at what insight is, as well as how to find insights through pattern recognition and pattern naming. Support: Patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn

162 | Understanding Creativity - 02 - Insight

We'll be taking a brief break from the Genesis of Meaning series to explore some dimensions of creativity. In this episode, we explore how creativity is more an issue of revaluation than of sheer novelty and the fact that this means attending to limits more than to the act of breaking out of them. Support: Patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn

161 | Understanding Creativity - 01 - Revaluation

In this series, we're exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about our most primal experiences of meaning and of being in the world. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy

160 | The Genesis of Meaning - 04 - Symbols

159 | The Genesis of Meaning - 03 - Light

In this series, we're exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about our most primal experiences of meaning and of being in the world Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy

158 | The Genesis of Meaning - 02 - Beginning

In this series, we'll be exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about the most primal experiences we have of meaning and of being in the world Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy

157 | The Genesis of Meaning - 01- Plausibility

In this episode, we'll be looking at a few questions on miscellaneous subjects.

156 | Q & A no. 15 - Miscellaneous

In this episode, we'll be looking at the nature of martyrdom and what it means to face up to this mysterious protest against the mob.

155 | Q & A no. 13 - Martyrdom

We'll be looking at 4 questions and 4 answers in this episode: 1) If GK Chesterton were alive today which aspects of today’s world do you think would most interest him? 2) What is the value, if any, of seeing “the news” as it exists on television, social media, etc.? 3) What is the proper way of understanding Darwinism in the context of Genesis? 4) What is the significance of the term “eucatastrophe”?

154 | Q & A no. 12 - Eucatastrophe

In this episode, I look at clarifying the difference between introversion and extroversion in Jung's book on Psychological Types, and also at some brief ideas around how Jungian typology interacts with the enneagram.Twitter: @duncanreyburn

134 | Q & A no. 11 - Introversion & Extroversion

In this episode, I answer this question: "I’m reading Camus’s The Plague and I’m at the point where fighting and grieving have become routine. They still track the numbers of deaths, but nobody thinks about what they mean. The US is at this point with COVID. Where do we go from here?” To do this, I explore how the "virus" acts as a structuring principle in fascism, deconstruction, and in online political squabbles, and then I look at a few key things that can help us (anyone really) to figure out "where ... we go from here".

152 | Q & A no. 10 - Viral Politics

As I wrap up 2020 on this podcast, I thought to take the time to answer a few of the questions some of you have sent me. To kick us off, we'll be looking briefly at my answer to this question: What are your thoughts on the technological and corporate invasion of the home?

151 | Q & A no. 9 - Technological Invasion

In this series, we’re exploring the philosophical and theological question of God’s providence, and some questions around this single question. Some foundational sources for this series are as follows: Heavenly Participation by Hans Boersma (Eerdmans, 2011); The Comforter by Sergius Bulgakov (Eerdmans, 2004), Participation in God by Andrew Davison (Cambridge, 2019); Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de Caussade (Ignatius, 2011);  Genesis, the Movie by Robert Farrar Capon (Eerdmans, 2003); Selected Writings of Meister Eckhart (Penguin, 1994), The Doors of the Sea by David Bentley Hart (Eerdmans, 2005), The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart (Yale, 2013), The Hidden and the Manifest by David Bentley Hart (Eerdmans, 2017), That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart (Yale, 2019), Mere Christianity by CS Lewis (HarperCollins, 1942), The Problem of Pain by CS Lewis (William Collins, 1940). Support this podcast: patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter/Parler: @duncanreyburn

150 | Providence - 04 - Mystery & Interdimensional Travel

Reflections on the Christian imagination and philosophical theology by Duncan Reyburn, PhD.

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