{"id":4444,"date":"2012-01-15T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2012-01-15T07:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T07:45:15","slug":"preaching-as-the-art-of-the-framer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2012\/01\/15\/preaching-as-the-art-of-the-framer\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching and the art of framing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lesson from Chiswick House<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this week I spent a very pleasant afternoon\u00a0walking\u00a0round the grounds of Chiswick House<\/a> in West London. This elegant home, built by the\u00a0Earl\u00a0of Burlington in 1789, sits in the middle of magnificent,\u00a0elegant\u00a0gardens. Full of classical allusions and elegant vistas, the gardens were the birthplace of the English Landscape Movement, and provided inspiration for other gardens as far apart as Blenheim Palace and Central Park. For the Earl and his designers they were not so much a landscape as the vision of a landscape. \u00a0Those who now manage the gardens have encapsulated this brilliantly with the use of picture frames (see below) at strategic points around the gardens. By use of that simple device, each visitor gets a sense of how the\u00a0original\u00a0designers envisaged the landscape. The frame adds nothing to the landscape except focus – and by doing so\u00a0enhances\u00a0our\u00a0understanding\u00a0and enjoyment of it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Image: chgt.org<\/p><\/div>\n

It strikes me that what they have done is not so very different from what I shall do later today. \u00a0As I take people on a journey back to the dawn of the Abrahamic faiths (Genesis 12 v. 1 – 9) I shall try to construct a frame for them around the text so that they can look at it more intently and appreciate its true value. Whether what they see will be as beautiful as the vistas I saw in Chiswick \u00a0is another matter.<\/p>\n

Does anyone else find this a helpful picture of the preacher’s art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lesson from Chiswick House Earlier this week I spent a very pleasant afternoon\u00a0walking\u00a0round the grounds of Chiswick House in West London. This elegant home, built by the\u00a0Earl\u00a0of Burlington in 1789, sits in the middle of magnificent,\u00a0elegant\u00a0gardens. Full of classical … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}