Imagination Defined

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Josef Pieper wrote, “Certain things can be adequately discussed only if at the same time we speak of the whole of the world and of life. If we are not ready to do that, we

Worldview, Reason, and Imagination

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              If you asked any Joe on the street to define “imagination”, what might he say? Thomas Howard humorously captured the popular view of imagination this way: “Imagination is

How the Imagination Dominates 75% of Your Day

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I’m writing this post about twenty minutes from home and about an hour from dinner time. Part of my mind is on the content I’m writing and part of my mind is thinking about dinner

A Quote from Longfellow

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                    “The purpose of the imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists—not creation, but insight.” -Henry Wadsworth

A Quote from C.S. Lewis

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“For this end I made your senses and for this end your imagination, that you might see My face and live.” -C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress

The Sanctified Imagination, Part 4

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The sanctified imagination will serve us well along this pilgrim way because it will see correspondences—in nature and everywhere else. It will pay attention to a world—a universe—pregnant with metaphors, each of which is a

The Sanctified Imagination, Part 3

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Like harvesters, we walk the fields of this world and look for the marks of Jesus Christ, gleaning the savior1 wherever he may be found. When our imaginative vision is consumed with God, captivated by

The Sanctified Imagination, Part 2

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Imagine this: A river in the sky. I have five children, four girls and one boy. Guy time is a rare and valued treat. When my son was about three, we bought him two foam