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    The Lord of Paradox
    The Lord of Paradox
    The Lord of Paradox
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    The Lord of Paradox

    By James S. Spiegel and Charlie Spear

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    The Lord of Paradox is a vividly illustrated theological poem. In seventy poignant yet whimsical stanzas, it moves from the Genesis creation account through the book of Revelation. The poem highlights the theme of paradox in the Christian worldview, powerfully displaying the beauty and wonder of the Gospel.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 10, 2014
    ISBN9781483520599
    The Lord of Paradox
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    James S. Spiegel

    James Spiegel holds a PhD from Michigan State University and currently teaches philosophy at Taylor University. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning How to Be Good in a World Gone Bad. Spiegel is a frequent speaker at Christian colleges, conferences, churches, and on radio programs. He lives in Fairmount, Indiana, with his wife, Amy, and their four children, Bailey, Samuel, Magdalene, and Andrew.

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      The Lord of Paradox - James S. Spiegel

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      The Lord of Paradox

      Once upon a world there was a peculiar worldview

      Making claims so strange that many said it can’t be true,

      Chock full of odd ideas, hard values and historical events

      That strain credulity, offend our scruples, and defy our common sense.

      But truth is no tame thing; rather, it is wild and free,

      As prone to surprise as to liberate those with mental eyes to see.

      And so in that world—our world—which began in spoken Word

      The sign of truth so often has been the apparently absurd.

      For truth is beauty and beauty truth, as someone once did say,

      And what is more artful than when two contraries are at play?

      When enemies unite, in life or thought, this must reveal

      Some greater good, a deeper truth, or higher beauty once concealed.

      Some call it paradox: the not-quite contradiction,

      That tension felt between two truths, a joyous cerebral friction,

      The harmony of opposites, that yin-yang of the mind,

      Of which our Lord is

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