Contemplative Realism: A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto with Joshua Hren (via ZOOM)
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Joshua Hren, novelist, founder of Wiseblood Books, and co-creator of the new Catholic creative writing MFA at University of St. Thomas (with B16's poet-in-residence James Matthew Wilson) had a raging fire in his brain: what was wrong with contemporary theories of literary realism? The 15,000 word manifesto Contemplative Realism (published by Angelico Press see below) represents a Catholic novelist wrestling with the aesthetic and philosophical questions: what changes if we take the reality of God seriously in our work as artists?