Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I. Religious Imagination Reconsidered

1. Religion as Imagination in Modern Thought

Modern Ambivalence About Religion
From Kant to the Romantics
The Critics of the Hegelian Left
Religious Imagination and Modern Atheism

2. A Theological Dilemma: "Natural Theology" or "Positivism of Revelation"

The Debate About Nature and Grace
Resolving the Theological Dilemma

3. The Priority of Paradigms: Clues from the Natural Sciences

Imagination as Anknüpfungspunkt
Imagination in Science and Religion
The Discovery of Paradigms in Science
The Priority of the Paradigm
The Logic of Paradigm Change

4. Religion and the Paradigmatic Imagination

The Grammar of Imagination
Imagination as Paradigmatic
Imagination and Interpretation
Overcoming "Mesocosmic Parochialism"
Religious Imagination

PART II. The Christian Imagination

5. The Image of God: The Meaning of Revelation

Imagination and the "Image of God"
Sin and the Image of God
Idols, Icons, and Images: An Excursus
Christ as the Image of God
Imitation and Imagination

6. The Normative Vision: The Function of Scripture

Calvin's Spectacles: The Inspiration of Scripture
The "Shape of the Mystery": The Unity of Scripture
The Classic Rendition: The Authority of Scripture
Focusing the Christian Imagination

7. The Faithful Imagination: The Task of Theology

Metaphor, Imagination, and Theology
Fact, Fiction, and Scriptural Truth
Fideism and the Faithful Imagination
The Hermeneutics of the Cross
The Theory and Practice of Imagination

Notes
Index of Names and Subjects
Index of Scripture References