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index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ We owe God the discipline, the mature and wise imagination, to recognize God's glory and reflect it.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ Christian imagination rekindled by Scripture is vital to refresh our engagement with our contemporary culture.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ And the Christian gospel has got to slice through all of that and say, "There is this man who died on a cross and whose suffering is at the heart of the ugliness of the world to show that God has come to that place where the world is in pain, and he wants us to go to the place where the world is in pain, and to imagine the love of God at that place, and to express that imagination in our art, our music, our silence, our poetry, our architecture.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ This movement or transference of His image onto or into our own countenance is, I think, largely what Ricoeur is getting at with his use of the term "imagination." If we try to study the scriptures in merely an academic, or historical-critical way, without ever involving ourselves, and hence our own imagination, in the process of interpretation, then the meaning of text remains effectively lifeless for us.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ This, then, is a second way in which to think Christianity about the arts: the Bible affirms that the artistic imagination and its creations have value in themselves, not simply for the religious or ideational content they may contain.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ It is rather that the biblical writers and Jesus found it impossible to communicate the truth of God without using the resources of the imagination.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ The imagination and the arts did not escape the effects of the Fall.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ The imagination is neither more nor less depraved than the mind, the will, and the emotions.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ A final biblical reminder that art and imagination can be a means of carnality as well as a means of grace occurs in the opening chapter of Romans, which traces with sordid detail the downward spiral of the human race from being Godfearing to being sensual and idolatrous.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ So when I speak of the imagination as a means of grace, I speak not of what it universally and automatically is but of what it ideally is and can be in a Christian's experience.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ So, our IMAGINATION is a Spiritual realm within us that our physical senses (or the physical senses of others) cannot PERCEIVE or DISCERN.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ Imagination is THOUGHTS that bring forth Spiritual and even Physical reactions.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ WHAT one uses the TECHNIQUE of imagination for, is essential.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ What other Carnal hang ups might have dampened the IMAGINATION?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ We must become as a child again and use this imagination as it is a KEY aspect of FAITH and the way to enter the Spiritual Realm.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ Now, let's look back at the definition of Imagination ...
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ Deeming your "imagination" as being no more than from SELFISH or VAIN is a mistake.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ Art is both a product of imagination and what sparks it.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ It seems to me that the best way for us to try and perceive him is to use the part of our minds that is limitless as well, our imagination.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ After all, scripture leaves things up to our imagination; it does not spell everything out word for word.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ It leaves it up to our imagination, so long as it is well guided through prayer.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ This is why we must be careful, not to restrain our imagination but rather pray for the Holy Spirit to help us lead it in a righteous direction and away from temptation.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ Our imagination gives us only another aspect of God's nature, not the full picture.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ However, God has given us the gift of imagination and insight for a reason.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ Thus let your prayerfully guided imagination lead you on your chase after God's nature.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ I really believe we're called by God to live each day for Him, but leaves it up to our imagination in many ways.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ Sometimes, even though our minds are finite and limited, I find the depths of my imagination go really far, but then I think, "Wow, God's imagination is so much more in depth than mine or any other person's." After all, God had the creative imagimation to create the whole universe in all its vastness, but also in the little details that we take for granted every day.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ One thing I disagree with is where you wrote about we needing to use our imagination to figure out what God is saying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ The heart and imagination of man was evil continually.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ His riff on the power of imagination at work in the excitement of athletic excellence as it (yes) relates to the heady and heavy work of scientific research and the humanities' wrestling with justice, goodness, and truth merits reading and contemplation.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ It is vital for Christians to guard the sanctity of their imaginations from idolatry, but sacred imagination is vital to proper and true worship to avoid intellectualized sterilization.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ The Hebrew word signifies not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ The Bible does not present us with doctrines to swallow but provides us with literature that addresses and evokes our spiritual imagination.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ For him, the Bible was not written to communicate facts but to provide stories and poetry to kindle our spiritual imagination.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ So, the interpreter is actually required to use his or her imagination to interact with the text at hand.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyImagination @ Fleshly "imagination" always leads to the negation and denial of Biblical truth.