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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-13 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | St. Mark's review: A journal of Christian thought and opinion |
| Volume | 221 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
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The Imagination of Our Hearts. / McLean, Graeme.
In: St. Mark's review: A journal of Christian thought and opinion, Vol. 221, No. 3, 2012, p. 1-13.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - The Imagination of Our Hearts
AU - McLean, Graeme
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = St. Mark's Review: a journal of Christian thought and opinion. ISSNs: 0036-3103;
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The sons of late-nineteenth-century English aristocrats were, if judged to be sufficiently intelligent and especially if considered to possess leadership potential, sent for the completion of their education to Oxford or Cambridge. Young Winston Churchill was not regarded as University material; he was sent instead to Sandhurst to train for the Army. Churchill relished his technical army education but it left what was in fact his enormous and penetrating intellect unsatisfied and when he emerged from his training and was posted as a cavalry officer to India he set himself an intensive course of reading in order to fill the gap. Looking back on those years in his My Early Life, Churchill relates how his reading, because it was unguided, was unbalanced and how he became unduly influenced by writers who challenged and undermined the Christian faith in which he had been brought up. He consequently 'passed through a violent and aggressive anti-religious phase'. What brought him out of that phase was not reasoned argument to the contrary, for at that stage he had not heard it.
AB - The sons of late-nineteenth-century English aristocrats were, if judged to be sufficiently intelligent and especially if considered to possess leadership potential, sent for the completion of their education to Oxford or Cambridge. Young Winston Churchill was not regarded as University material; he was sent instead to Sandhurst to train for the Army. Churchill relished his technical army education but it left what was in fact his enormous and penetrating intellect unsatisfied and when he emerged from his training and was posted as a cavalry officer to India he set himself an intensive course of reading in order to fill the gap. Looking back on those years in his My Early Life, Churchill relates how his reading, because it was unguided, was unbalanced and how he became unduly influenced by writers who challenged and undermined the Christian faith in which he had been brought up. He consequently 'passed through a violent and aggressive anti-religious phase'. What brought him out of that phase was not reasoned argument to the contrary, for at that stage he had not heard it.
KW - Open access version available
KW - Anti-god desire
KW - Ethics of desires
M3 - Article
VL - 221
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - St. Mark's review: A journal of Christian thought and opinion
JF - St. Mark's review: A journal of Christian thought and opinion
SN - 0036-3103
IS - 3
ER -