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Reflections on the Process of Creating Paintings: Reclaiming the Sacred and the Future in a World That Seems to Be Dying

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In this paper, I want to reflect on the process involved in being a pastoral theologian who is also a painter and creative artist. I hope that reflecting on the process of creating paintings might be helpful for thinking about God and God's role as Creator with the whole created order. I will leave the reader to make the specific connections.

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  1. United Theological College, New South Wales, Australia

    Douglas Purnell

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Purnell, D. Reflections on the Process of Creating Paintings: Reclaiming the Sacred and the Future in a World That Seems to Be Dying. Pastoral Psychology 50, 369–376 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014465704780

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