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Perhaps one of the least appreciated aspects of Rowan Williams is his theology of imagination. Seeking to fill this gap, this book explores the imaginative impulse operative in Rowan Williams' theology and poetry, which centres around the notion of 'divine desire', and the way in which imagination can reveal possibility even in the bleakest of circumstances.
Drawing on his poetic work as well as his theological writing, the book explores how Williams' theology leads us to a fresh understanding of the ways in which the renewing and enabling energy of the Holy Spirit is ever active, within and beyond the Church, in enabling human imaginations to cooperate with the divine energy of love in bringing creation to fulfilment.
Contents
Preface vii
Introduction 1
Part One: Imagination: Its Nature and Operation 21
1 Imagination 23
2 Symbolization: Meaning-making 45
3 Analogy and the Structure of Reality 62
Part Two: Desire in Williams' Theology 79
4 Divine Desire 81
5 Human Desire 99
6 The Church and the Transformation of Desire 119
Part Three: Imagination in the Work of Rowan Williams 139
7 Language in a Communicative Universe 141
8 Poiesis I: 'Making Other' 157
9 Poiesis II: 'Making Strange' 176
10 Rowan Williams' Theology of Imagination 198
Conclusion 215
Afterword: The Sparkle from the Coal 220
Felin Uchaf: Poetry in the Roundhouse 220
Bibliography 223
Index 239
