“The imagination was Jesus’ main target.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I ran across this article, Can You Imagine? Why imagination is crucial to the Christian life, a few weeks ago and found it helpful as an introduction to the Christian imagination. To those of us still trying to wrap our minds around this topic, Brandon J. O’brien offers a clear and compelling case for reclaiming the imagination as a central part of the Christian walk. Here’s a taste:

“Jesus calls us to an even more demanding act of imagination. He stood in the line of the prophets, but he radicalized their message. ‘The day is coming,’ they had said. He changed the tense. He says, ‘The day has come.’ The world the prophets had envisioned is no longer a future reality. It is happening here and now. Jesus invites his followers to imagine that the kingdom of God is at hand, and with it have come all those promised reversals. If I may be so bold, it appears that the imagination was Jesus’ main target.”