The Theological Imagination

The Theological Imagination Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith - Current Issues in Theology

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Publisher's Synopsis

How can we live truthfully in a world riddled with ambiguity contradiction, and clashing viewpoints? We make sense of the world imaginatively, resolving ambiguous and incomplete impressions into distinct forms and wholes. But the images, objects, words, and even lives of which we make sense in this way always have more or other possible meanings. Judith Wolfe argues that faith gives us courage both to shape our world creatively, and reverently to let things be more than we can imagine. Drawing on complementary materials from literature, psychology, art, and philosophy, her remarkable book demonstrates that Christian theology offers a potent way of imagining the world even as it brings us to the limits of our capacity to imagine. In revealing the significance of unseen depths - of what does not yet make sense to us, and the incomplete - Wolfe characterizes faith as trust in God that surpasses all imagination.

Book information

ISBN: 9781009519861
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 256 .
Weight: -1g