The Theological Imagination

For Judith Wolfe, theology offers a potent way of imagining the world eve as it shows the limits of imagination.

Judith Wolfe's remarkable book shows that Christian theology offers a potent way of imagining the world even as it challenges that same capacity to imagine. In revealing the significance of ambiguity, and of unseen depths and the incomplete – the author characterizes faith as trust in a God beyond all imagination.How can we live truthfully in a world riddled with ambiguity, contradiction, and clashing viewpoints? We make sense of the world imaginatively, resolving ambiguous and incomplete impressions into distinct forms and wholes. But the images, objects, words, and even lives of which we make sense in this way always have more or other possible meanings. Judith Wolfe argues that faith gives us courage both to shape our world creatively, and reverently to let things be more than we can imagine. Drawing on complementary materials from literature, psychology, art, and philosophy, her remarkable book demonstrates that Christian theology offers a potent way of imagining the world even as it brings us to the limits of our capacity to imagine. In revealing the significance of unseen depths – of what does not yet make sense to us, and the incomplete – Wolfe characterizes faith as trust in God that surpasses all imagination.