Imagining God
Journal article
Wolfe, Judith. (2023). Imagining God. Modern Theology. 40(1), pp. 97-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12846
Authors | Wolfe, Judith |
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Abstract | This article interrogates the role of the human imagination in ordinary perception and orientation, in encounters with art, and in practices of faith. Philosophers and psychologists have long argued that perception is irreducibly imaginative, in the sense that to perceive intelligibly is, in part, to integrate sensory data into forms or wholes that are not simply given. The ability to do this is what continental philosophy calls ‘the imagination’, and the imagination in this sense is central to how humans apprehend and orient themselves in the world. This centrality introduces an element of risk into all human apprehension of the world, other people, and the divine, which cannot be overcome by spiritual or epistemological safeguards. Rather, such risk is inalienable, not least to a life of faith. The article discusses ways to understand and engage this dynamic, especially through theological encounters with art. |
Keywords | human imagination; philosophy; faith; theology; art |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Modern Theology |
Journal citation | 40 (1), pp. 97-109 |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
ISSN | 0266-7177 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12846 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85147179340 |
Web address (URL) | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/moth.12846 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 97-109 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 02 Feb 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | Feb 2023 |
Deposited | 03 Jun 2024 |
Additional information | © 2023 The Author. Modern Theology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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