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PRODUCT TITLE IMAGINING THEOLOGY - ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD IN SCRIPTURE, INTERPRETATION, AND AESTHETICS
ISBN NUMBER 9781540961921
CATEGORY TYPE THEOLOGY
AUTHOR/EDITOR GARRETT GREEN
PUBLISHER BAKER PUBLISHING GROUP - BAKER ACADEMIC
PRODUCT Type. Books
Summary NA
FORMAT HARDCOVER WITH JACKET
SELLING PRICE $56.00*
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DESCRIPTION

The imagination is where the Creator chooses to meet his creatures, says renowned theologian Garrett Green. The Word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit set the imagination free for genuine and creative knowledge of God, the world, others, and the self. Green explains that theology is best understood as human imagination faithfully conformed to the Bible as the paradigmatic key to the Christian gospel. He unpacks the implications of the imagination for a variety of theological issues, such as interpretation, aesthetics, eschatology, and the relationship between church and culture.
 
 
Contents
 
1. Toward a Normative Christian Imagination
 
Part 1: Imagination and Theological Hermeneutics
2. Myth, History, and Imagination: The Creation Narratives in the Bible and Theology
3. Who's Afraid of Ludwig Feuerbach? Suspicion and the Religious Imagination
4. The Crisis of Mainline Christianity and the Liberal Failure of Imagination
5. Hans Frei and the Hermeneutics of the Second Naïveté
 
Part 2: Metaphor, Aesthetics, and Gender
6. The Mirror, the Lamp, and the Lens: On the Limits of Imagination
7. Barth on Beauty: The Ambivalence of Reformed Aesthetics
8. The Gender of God and the Theology of Metaphor
 
Part 3: Modernity and Eschatology in Christian Imagination
9. The Adulthood of the Modern Age: Hamann's Critique of Kantian Enlightenment
10. Kant as Christian Apologist: The Failure of Accommodationist Theology
11. Moltmann's Two Eschatologies
12. The Eschatological Imagination
 
Part 4: Theology of Religion and the Religions
13. The Myth of Religion: How to Think Christianly in a Secular World
14. Pluralism and the Religious Imagination
15. Imaginary Gods and the Anonymous Christ
 
Part 5: Conclusion
16. Christian Theology in a Post-Christian Age
Index