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8 - Religious Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2024

By
Ronald W. Hepburn
Edited by
Michael McGhee
Michael McGhee
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
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In some recent theological writing, imagination is presented as a power of the mind with crucial importance for religion, but one whose role has often suffered neglect. Its fuller acknowledgment has become a live issue today. ‘Theologians’, wrote Professor J. P. Mackey, ‘have recently taken to symbol and metaphor, poetry and story, with an enthusiasm which contrasts very strikingly with their all-but-recent avoidance of such matters’ (1986, p. 1).

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Spiritual Life , pp. 207 - 235
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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