Kristen Blair
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen Blair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen |
| FAMILY NAME | Blair |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIR K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Free Forever to Act for Themselves”
Christian mystic, theologian, and preacher Howard Thurman wrote through the tumultuous American civil rights era. His attention to the anatomy of the interior being and the locus of life's meaning influenced key figures in the movement, including Martin Luther King Jr., who is said to have always traveled with a copy of Thurman's well-known Jesus and the Disinherited.2 Among Thurman's key insights is his concept of the inward sea, or soul. As a B…
Disconnection and the Healing Practice of Imagination for Mormon Environmental Ethics
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints possesses a subversive and fecund interpretation of the Christian creation narrative. This interpretation, denying creation ex nihilo, bespeaks a particular attention to and care for the living earth. However, Latter-day Saint praxis is wounded by a searing disconnect between the theopoetics of its conceptual creation and its lived practice. I argue that the Church must understand this disconnect as…
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Disconnection and the Healing Practice of Imagination for Mormon Environmental Ethics
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints possesses a subversive and fecund interpretation of the Christian creation narrative. This interpretation, denying creation ex nihilo, bespeaks a particular attention to and care for the living earth. However, Latter-day Saint praxis is wounded by a searing disconnect between the theopoetics of its conceptual creation and its lived practice. I argue that the Church must understand this disconnect as…
“Free Forever to Act for Themselves”
Christian mystic, theologian, and preacher Howard Thurman wrote through the tumultuous American civil rights era. His attention to the anatomy of the interior being and the locus of life's meaning influenced key figures in the movement, including Martin Luther King Jr., who is said to have always traveled with a copy of Thurman's well-known Jesus and the Disinherited.2 Among Thurman's key insights is his concept of the inward sea, or soul. As a B…
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (2 works) · SAINT (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Asceticism (1 work) · Disconnection (1 work)