Music, art, literature and film will be communing for an evening of performance and print, as the London Word Festival throws a four-hundredth birthday party for the King James Bible with a difference. Check out those contributing to the King James Bible Bash at Stoke Newington International Airport on Saturday 23rd April by clicking here. You’ll not see anything like this at your local church this Sunday.
On the same theme of the continuing inspiration of the Bible for creativity, writer Jeanette Winterson has been quoted by Genevieve Fox as saying:
"I do not think the inner life edited by AC Grayling is how I want to live. What secularists forget about Christianity is that belief in that system prompted the creation of an astounding body of imaginative work that in turn uplifts and alters the human spirit.
I do not believe in a sky god but the religious impulse in us is more than primitive superstition. We are meaning-seeking creatures and materialism plus good works and good behaviour does not seem to be enough to provide meaning. We shall have to go on asking questions but I would rather that philosophers like Grayling asked them without the formula of answers.
As for the Bible, it remains a remarkable book and I am going to go on reading it."
Artist Albert Houthuesen said:
"When you are a child and you read in the Bible of miracles, you wonder very much. Later all that changes and it becomes an amazingly imaginative idea of the world, based on truth, and written by great poets. Man, through this poetry, is trying to express about his life what is so terribly difficult to understand. He stands in mystery and through it he is trying all the time to understand.
At certain times, one may begin to make drawings and paintings of biblical things. The Bible is full of these tremendously imaginative ideas. They are profound symbols. The richness of the Bible is terrific. It is the greatest stuff that has ever been written."
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