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170 - Art Participates in God's Governance - Bradley Elliott, O.P.
Fr. Bradley Elliott, a professional drummer turned Dominican friar, joins the podcast to discuss his book, The Shape of the Artistic Mind: A Search for the Metaphysical Link Between Art and Morals in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas. Themes include:
Man's capacity to participate in God's creative activity and governance of the world
How human artistic activity not only imitates but enhance nature
The combination of Aristotelian and neo-Platonic streams in St. Thomas's theory of art
How Aristotle redeemed the notion of nature from Plato, and Plotinus redeemed the notion of imitation from Plato…
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