![]() More embarrassing still, the rare reader may find himself a little experientially out-of-touch with the “large-mannered motions” (Wallace Stevens) signaling joy, paradise, and personal forward progress.Īs another slight point of embarrassment, I had to look up the meaning of the word ‘imagination’, and hopefully providing a definition here would not come across as too basic. ![]() Awash in thoughts of family farms sold, inheritances forfeited, and next-of-kin pawning them back, such etymologically-constrained readers can be taxed by unfamiliarity with the contemporary, figurative tradition about various conceptual realities being ‘redeemed’. For example, the question of the imagination’s being ‘fully redeemed’ is one that a stubbornly literal-minded person cannot quite wrap his head around. ![]() ![]() It’s embarrassingly difficult to find oneself largely without answers but with questions, especially in the context of beautiful reflections on art, liturgy, the imago dei, and other affectively-charged elements of the Christian imagination. ![]() This article was originally posted by the John Jay Institute, as part of an online symposium it held on Christian Imagination a couple years back. ![]()
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