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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2024
      November 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009519847
      9781009519861
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009519847
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 208 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Theology
      Series:
      Current Issues in Theology
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    How can we live truthfully in a world riddled with ambiguity, contradiction, and clashing viewpoints? We make sense of the world imaginatively, resolving ambiguous and incomplete impressions into distinct forms and wholes. But the images, objects, words, and even lives of which we make sense in this way always have more or other possible meanings. Judith Wolfe argues that faith gives us courage both to shape our world creatively, and reverently to let things be more than we can imagine. Drawing on complementary materials from literature, psychology, art, and philosophy, her remarkable book demonstrates that Christian theology offers a potent way of imagining the world even as it brings us to the limits of our capacity to imagine. In revealing the significance of unseen depths – of what does not yet make sense to us, and the incomplete – Wolfe characterizes faith as trust in God that surpasses all imagination.

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    ‘Judith Wolfe’s wonderfully creative meditation on the human imagination and God inspires, cajoles, disturbs, and invites the reader to a new place of response that few could evoke as she does. As philosophically learned as she is spiritually profound, Wolfe calls in all the power of the arts to support her core thesis that God attends our deepest engagement with the mystery of the world, as it ever challenges our imaginative questioning and response.’

    Sarah Coakley - Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity Emerita, University of Cambridge

    ‘No doubt it is appropriate that a book about imagination should be so imaginatively rich in form and substance as this one is, but it is astonishing nonetheless. Judith Wolfe’s erudition and originality are both fully on display here – she moves with ease through the worlds of the arts, philosophy, theology, and psychology – but so also is the sheer elegance of her mind. And the vision of the theological imagination that emerges in these pages is at once profound and genuinely beautiful.’

    David Bentley Hart - University of Notre Dame

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    Contents

    Contents
    • 1 - Introduction
      pp 1-36
    • Imagining a World
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