Imagining theology : encounters with God in scripture, interpretation, and aesthetics /
Garrett Green.
- ix, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Toward a normative Christian imagination -- Myth, history, and imagination : the creation narratives in the Bible and theology -- Who's afraid of Ludwig Feuerbach? Suspicion and the religious imagination -- The crisis of mainline Christianity and the liberal failure of imagination -- Hans Frei and the hermeneutics of the second naïveté -- The mirror, the lamp, and the lens: on the limits of imagination -- Barth on beauty : the ambivalence of reformed aesthetics -- The gender of God and the theology of metaphor -- The adulthood of the modern age : Hamann's critique of Kantian enlightenment -- Kant as Christian apologist : the failure of accommodationist theology -- Moltmann's two eschatologies -- The eschatological imagination -- The myth of religion : how to think Christianly in a secular world -- Are religions incommensurable? Pluralism and the religious imagination -- Imaginary gods and the anonymous Christ -- Christian theology in a post-Christian age.
"Shows that the word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit set the imagination free for genuine and creative knowledge of God, world, others, and the self"--