Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1666706884 ISBN 13: 9781666706888

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Jason Goroncy (PhD, St Andrews) is Associate Professor of Theology in the University of Divinity, Australia, and has published widely in the areas of public theology, theology and the arts, and theological ethics. He is the author of Hallowed be Thy Name: The Sanctification of All in the Soteriology of P. T. Forsyth (T&T Clark, 2013), and P. T. Forsyth: Life and Thought (Wipf and Stock, forthcoming), and the contributing editor of Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History: Notes from the Pulpit Ministry of P. T. Forsyth (Pickwick, 2013), Tikkun Olam--To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts (Pickwick, 2014), Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology (Pickwick, 2022), and the T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He also writes at jasongoroncy.com.

Rod Pattenden is an adjunct fellow with the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666706884
• ISBN 13: 9781666706888
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Goroncy Jason, Pattenden Rod