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Book SynopsisTimothy Radcliffe considers the strength of the Christian imagination in its ability inspire others.
How can Christianity touch the imagination of our contemporaries when ever fewer people in the West identify as religious? Timothy Radcliffe argues we must show how everything we believe is an invitation to live fully. God says: I put before you life and death: choose life.
Anyone who understands the beauty and messiness of human life--novelists, poets, filmmakers and so on--can be our allies, whether they believe or not. The challenge is not today''s secularism but its banality.
We accompany the disciples as they struggle to understand this strange man who heals, casts out demons and offers endless forgiveness. In the face of death, he teaches them what it means to be alive in God. Then he embraces all that afflicts and crushes humanity. Finally, Radcliffe explores what it means for us to be alive spiritually, physically, sacramentally, justly and prayerfull
Trade Review
This is a book that contains all the wonder, beauty, mess and agony of being alive today. * SLG Press *
Table of Contents
IMAGINATION 1 Wingless and Three-Legged Chickens 2 Choose Life JOURNEYING 3 The Transcendent Adventure 4 A God for Our Aches and Pains 5 Initial Skirmishes 6 Growing Up 7 Skin and Forgiveness TEACHING 8 Teaching: The Dogmatic Imagination 9 Impossible Friendships 10 The Non-Violent Imagination 11 At Home 12 The Ecology of Faith 13 Affliction THE RISEN LIFE Introduction 14 The Spiritual Life: Fresh Air 15 The Bodily Life: Hallowing the Senses 16 The Sacramental versus the Technocratic Imagination 17 The Liturgical Imagination: God's Providence 18 The Life of Prayer: The Poetry of Hope Conclusion Notes Acknowledgements Bibliography
