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Religious Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Ronald W. Hepburn
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In some recent theological writing, imagination is presented as a power of the mind with crucial importance for religion, but one whose role has often suffered neglect. Its fuller acknowledgment has become a live issue today. ‘Theologians’, wrote Professor J. P. Mackey, ‘have recently taken to symbol and metaphor, poetry and story, with an enthusiasm which contrasts very strikingly with their all-but-recent avoidance of such matters’ (1986, p. 1). As well as relevant writings by Eliade and Ricoeur, there have been treatments of religious imagination by Professor John Mclntyre in his Faith, Theology and Imagination (1987) and in J. P. Mackey's composite volume entitled Religious Imagination.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 32 , March 1992 , pp. 127 - 143
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1992

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