"The poet, the musician and the artist were never more needed in the church than today..." asserted Professor David Jasper of Glasgow University in the second of our St Wilfrid Lectures. Drawing on his expertise in the literature of the romantic period, but including reference to a wide range of art, such as the music of Beethoven and the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, professor Jasper delivered a thought provoking lecture on the paradoxical relationship between appearances and truth, between presence and absence. "The artist's vocation", he said, "is to see into the abyss in which finally heaven and hell are one and reconciled in the peace which passes all understanding ... causing us to see that which in the beginning God saw, and saw that it was good."
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