Nicholas Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a Russian philosopher and activist who changed the philosophical, aesthetic and religious landscape of the 20th century.
Jagger and Richards, \'I know it\'s only Rock and Roll, but I like it.\' "For your consideration as \'Patron Saint of the New Spiritual Humanism, \' may I suggest Nicholas Berdyaev .".
To quote The Door\'s Jim Morrison, I marvel at how compelling expressions of Creativity can help us \'break on through to the other side.\' To that I would add the wisdom of Mssrs.
From the Editor "Throughout my career as a musician, booking agent, artist manager, Artist & Repertoire executive, marketing VP, educator, and author I have felt compelled to attempt to fashion, for lack of a better term, a \'Rock and Roll Theological Aesthetic.\' By that I do not mean a philosophy of religious art per se, but an exploration into how great art, even popular music, by its sheer originality and excellence, can transport the listener from the here-and-now to what seems another realm, another place, another way of being.
He is the creator of Van Gogh to Go, a 3-volume series presenting van Gogh\'s most evocative quotes and paintings about art, work and spirituality, plus the online project, Into The Mystic.
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His work has been cited in "Billboard," "Rolling Stone," the "L.
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Tom Willett (1950- ) is an American musician, entertainment industry executive, educator and author who has been involved in the creation and marketing of more than 300 award-winning record albums. along with excerpts from other Berdyaev books and articles in which he further elucidates his main theme that "God calls us to creative activity and to a creative answer to God\'s love." To those who aspire to the privileged and terrifying role of "artist," and to the rest of us who simply desire to practice a more humane spirituality and a more Spiritual humanism, this book is dedicated.
Creativeness is a transition beyond the limits of this world." Creativity Will Save the World presents the most evocative sections of The Meaning...
In his seminal work, The Meaning of the Creative Act, which contains in raw form all of his dominant and formative ideas, he noted that "the importance and the interesting aspect in humans is connected with the opening up in them of the path towards the Infinite and the Eternal, with the possibility of breaking through.
In 1922, along with other elite representatives of Russian culture, science and theology, Berdyaev was exiled from Russia by the Soviet authorities on the renown "Philosophers\' Ship." For the rest of his life he lived in an expatriate who dreamed of returning to his homeland.
The author of more than 15 books and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times, he spoke in a new way about the centrality of Creativity to what it means to be human.
Nicholas Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a Russian philosopher and activist who changed the philosophical, aesthetic and religious landscape of the 20th century
