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I don't always agree with N. T. Wright, but on this he seems to me to be spot on. There have been lots of debates about whether there are \u201cother ways of knowing\u201d besides the sciences. For me, the arts are clues that we do other things with reality besides know, and an indication that humans find ways to point to the mysterious and give voice to the ineffable. <\/p>\n

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I don’t always agree with N. T. Wright, but on this he seems to me to be spot on. There have been lots of debates about whether there are \u201cother ways of knowing\u201d besides the sciences. For me, the arts are clues that we do other things with reality besides know, and an indication that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":33130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[816,7862,9854,10015],"class_list":["post-33129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-arts","tag-n-t-wright","tag-quote","tag-reality"],"yoast_head":"\nHighways to the Center of Reality<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I don't always agree with N. T. Wright, but on this he seems to me to be spot on. 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