{"id":9326,"date":"2022-04-04T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:33:58","slug":"the-truth-and-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9326","title":{"rendered":"THE TRUTH AND BEAUTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Andrew Klavan has written a terrific book (Amazon link and two videos are below). His keen insights and marvelous writing are on full display.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead of a typical book review, I am going to list six things that I appreciated about <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Truth and Beauty<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Klavan is an honest, but not cynical writer. It\u2019s not easy to write truthfully while still holding to a compelling hope, but Klavan does.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*There is a winsome and penetrating critique of materialism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Good sketches of key individuals and historic movements like the French Revolution provide helpful context.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Klavan\u2019s book contains a convincing account of how the Romantic poets (even the godless ones) have much to offer Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*The author clearly did his homework by familiarizing himself with solid scholarship, but he does not write about pedantic details that most people do not care about.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* Last, and hardly least: there is a joyful confidence in the Bible. Klavan is an adult convert to<\/strong> <strong>Christianity, so he takes nothing for granted. His thoughtfulness and child-like faith in God are edifying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England&#039;s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B09MH85H3S\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Truth and Beauty PART I: Understanding The Words of Jesus Christ\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3t1fP1qYQEI?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Truth and Beauty PART II: The Birth of Science Fiction and The War on Women\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ixo2vyd1v8w?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Klavan has written a terrific book (Amazon link and two videos are below). His keen insights and marvelous writing are on full display. Instead of a typical book review, I am going to list six things that I appreciated about The\u00a0Truth and Beauty: *Klavan is an honest, but not cynical writer. It\u2019s not easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,12,43,89,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-book-review","category-christianity","category-gospel","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}