Kirjahaku

John Henry Newman was keenly aware of the imagination in the religious life, and indeed this was the basis of his originality. But what made Newman's imagination unique? It was the gift of Newman to 'realise' the unseen, to create compelling images of the invisible world, and it was a gift that was essential to his creativity as a thinker and literary stylist. Here at last is a convincing study of the character and force of Newman's imagination.This book explores the intersection between theology and the imagination in Newman's thought. It gives exceptional insights into Victorian culture by examining a figure who was one of the most eminent 'cultural apostates' of his age. Indeed, Dive provides new perspectives on the complex dynamics of the culture of Victorian England.

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative ‘master vision’ which ‘supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace’. All his life, Newman reflected on this ‘master vision’. His reflections on the moral imagination developed out of his understanding of practical wisdom, as characterized by Aristotle – the wisdom that ‘the good man’ has in living a good life. For Newman, the vision at the core of religion completes and perfects the intuitions of the conscience.John Henry Newman and the Imagination looks at how Newman’s understanding of the moral and visionary imagination developed over the course of his life; and it relates his ideas about the imagination to his portrayals of religious experience, and vision, in his novels and poetry.

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative ‘master vision’ which ‘supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace’. All his life, Newman reflected on this ‘master vision’. His reflections on the moral imagination developed out of his understanding of practical wisdom, as characterized by Aristotle – the wisdom that ‘the good man’ has in living a good life. For Newman, the vision at the core of religion completes and perfects the intuitions of the conscience.John Henry Newman and the Imagination looks at how Newman’s understanding of the moral and visionary imagination developed over the course of his life; and it relates his ideas about the imagination to his portrayals of religious experience, and vision, in his novels and poetry.