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How can Christianity touch the imagination of our contemporaries when ever fewer people in the West identify as religious?
Cardinal 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, Cardinal Radcliffe explores what it means for us to be alive spiritually, physically, sacramentally, justly and prayerfully. The result is a compelling new understanding of the words of Jesus: 'I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.'
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
