Imagining God: Theology and Religious Imagination Book

Introduction

PART I. Religious Imagination Reconsidered

Modern Ambivalence About Religion
From Kant to the Romantics
The Critics of the Hegelian Left
Religious Imagination and Modern Atheism

The Debate About Nature and Grace
Resolving the Theological Dilemma

Imagination as Anknüpfungspunkt
Imagination in Science and Religion
The Discovery of Paradigms in Science
The Priority of the Paradigm
The Logic of Paradigm Change

The Grammar of Imagination
Imagination as Paradigmatic
Imagination and Interpretation
Overcoming "Mesocosmic Parochialism"
Religious Imagination

PART II. The Christian Imagination

Imagination and the "Image of God"
Sin and the Image of God
Idols, Icons, and Images: An Excursus
Christ as the Image of God
Imitation and Imagination

Calvin's Spectacles: The Inspiration of Scripture
The "Shape of the Mystery": The Unity of Scripture
The Classic Rendition: The Authority of Scripture
Focusing the Christian Imagination

Metaphor, Imagination, and Theology
Fact, Fiction, and Scriptural Truth
Fideism and the Faithful Imagination
The Hermeneutics of the Cross
The Theory and Practice of Imagination

Notes
Index of Names and Subjects
Index of Scripture References