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Zusatztext Mentioned in new books of the week in Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 January 2008 Informationen zum Autor Douglas Hedley is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, UK. A past President of the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion, he has been visiting Professor at the Sorbonne and holder of the Alan Richardson lectureship at Durham University. He delivered the Teape Lectures in India in 2007. His former publications include Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion (Cambridge University Press). Klappentext Religious belief characteristically requires imaginative engagement. If this is not to be confused with fantasy or wish fulfilment, we need some account of how the imagination can used through images of salvation: symbols and sacred narratives. Metaphysic Vorwort Explores the centrality of the imagination in dealing with the inner lives of other human beings, moral values or aesthetic qualities, and religious belief. Zusammenfassung Religious belief requires imaginative engagement. If this is not to be confused with fantasy or wish fulfilment, we need some account of how the imagination can be used through images of salvation: symbols and sacred narratives. This book argues that the concept of imagination must play a core role in an anti-reductionist account. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Prologue 1. Religion, Romanticism and Imagining Modernity 2. The Creative Imagination 3. The Experience of God: Poetry, Enchantment and the Mood of Ecstatic Imagination 4. Religion: Fantasy, or Legitimate Longing? 5. The Problem of Metaphysics 6. Myths, Dreams and Other Stories 7. Inspired Images, Angels and the Imaginal World 8. Social Imaginary Epilogue Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Names ...
