Imagination in an Age of Crisis

Soundings from the Arts and Theology

Jason Goroncy, Rod Pattenden, Jason Goroncy, Rod Pattenden

• Verlag: Pickwick Publications
• Jahr: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781666706901
• Thema: Théologie et religion
• Thema: Littérature et arts dans le christianisme

This book explores the vital role of the imagination in today's complex climates--cultural, environmental, political, racial, religious, spiritual, intellectual, etc. It asks: What contribution do the arts make in a world facing the impacts of globalism, climate change, pandemics, and losses of culture? What wisdom and insight, and orientation for birthing hope and action in the world, do the arts offer to religious faith and to theological reflection?These essays, poems, and short reflections--written by art practitioners and academics from a diversity of cultures and religious traditions--demonstrate the complex cross-cultural nature of this conversation, examining critical questions in dialogue with various art forms and practices, and offering a way of understanding how the human imagination is formed, sustained, employed, and expanded. Marked by beauty and wonder, as well as incisive critique, it is a unique collection that brings unexpected voices into a global conversation about imagining human futures.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Title Page
• Contributors
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Daring Imagination
• Chapter 1: The Cloud of Unknowing
• Chapter 2: Yolŋu Scriptures and Hermeneutics
• Chapter 3: Having Eyes to See
• Chapter 4: Why Imagination Matters
• Chapter 5: Painting
• Chapter 6: The Objects of Our Loyalties and the Power of Inanimate Objects
• Chapter 7: The Shadow of the Cross
• Chapter 8: “If I Say . . . ”
• Chapter 9: Timpani
• Chapter 10: Hope at the End of History
• Chapter 11: Home
• Chapter 12: Every Life Can Sing
• Chapter 13: “I Am Making Everything New!”
• Chapter 14: Journal de l’Année de la Peste
• Chapter 15: Setting the Record Straight
• Chapter 16: What Do I Paint Now?
• Chapter 17: Imagination and the Sacred
• Chapter 18: Process Sequence
• Chapter 19: “It’ll Take You Way Down to the Wilderness”
• Chapter 20: Grass Cloak
• Chapter 21: “My Past Has Thrown Me Out”
• Chapter 22: Fellowship
• Chapter 23: Do You Believe in God?
• Chapter 24: Imagined Conversations and Real Letters during COVID-Times
• Chapter 25: Circular Repetition
• Chapter 26: Ida Nangala Granites
• Chapter 27: George Gittoes
• Chapter 28: The Portable Church
• Chapter 29: Who Is an Artist, and Who Cares Anyway?
• Chapter 30: Compelling Stories
• Chapter 31: Figure Held in Water
• Chapter 32: “Goin’ to the City”
• Chapter 33: What to Make of This, What to Make