Living forms of the imagination

Living forms of the imagination / Douglas Hedley.

Religious belief characteristically requires imaginative engagement. If this is not to be confused with fantasy or wish fulfilment, we need some account of how the imagination can used through images of salvation: symbols and sacred narratives. Metaphysical reductionism inspired by success of the ph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hedley, Douglas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : T & T Clark, ©2008.
Subjects:
Imagination > Religious aspects.
Imagination (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Imagination > Religious aspects
Religionsphilosophie
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. Religion, Romanticism and Imagining Modernity; 2. The Creative Imagination; 3. The Experience of God: Poetry, Enchantment and the Mood of Ecstatic Imagination; 4. Religion: Fantasy or Legitimate Longing?; 5. The Problem of Metaphysics; 6. Myths, Dreams and Other Stories; 7. Inspired Images, Angels and the Imaginal World; 8. Social Imaginary; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Names.

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