Theology/Imagination reading lists
Contents
- On the imagination
Studies of the imagination as a human capacity, not necessarly from a theological perspective. - On theology and imagination
Studies of the place and role of the imagination within theology. - The imagination in theology
Works which either seek to do theology through imaginative forms, or which make significant use of the category of imagination. - Theology & imagination bibliography
A bibliography compiled by Michael Gallagher for his course, 'Theology & Imagination', Gregorian University, Rome.
On the imagination
Important explorations of the imagination, not necessarily from a theological perspective
Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination ( Concord, 1993)
E. J. Furlong, Imagination ( London, 1961)
Mark Johnson, The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination and Reason ( Chicago, 1987)
Richard Kearney, The Wake of Imagination ( London, 1988)
Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining, 2nd ed ( Edinburgh, 1998)
Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation ( London, 1964)
Mary Warnock, Imagination ( London, 1976)
On theology and imagination
Studies of the place and role of the imagination within theology.
Paul Avis, God and the Creative Imagination ( London, 1999)
Ian Barbour, Myths, Models & Paradigms ( London, 1974)
Jeremy Begbie, Voicing Creation's Praise ( Edinburgh, 1991)
E. Bevan, Symbolism and Belief ( London, 1938)
David Brown and Ann Loades, The Sacramental Word: Incarnations, Sacrament and Poetry ( London, 1996)
David Brown, Tradition and Imagination ( Oxford, 1999)
Walter Brueggemann, The Bible and Postmodern Imagination ( London, 1993)
David J Bryant, Faith and the Play of the Imagination: On the Role of Imagination in Religion ( Macon, 1989)
L Dewar, Imagination and Religion ( London, 1933)
F W Dillistone, The Power of Symbols ( London, 1986)
Kathleen Fischer, The Inner Rainbow: The Imagination in Christian Life (Ramsey, N.J. , 1983)
Helen Gardner, Religion and Literature ( London, 1971)
Garrett Green, Imagining God: Theology and the Religious imagination (Grand Rapids, 1999)
Gordon Kaufman, The Theological Imagination: Constructing the Concept of God ( Philadelphia, 1981)
John MacIntyre, Faith, Theology and Imagination ( Edinburgh, 1986)
Paul Ricoeur, Figuring the Sacred (Philadephia, 1995)
J Martin Soskice, Metaphor and Religious Language ( Oxford, 1985)
William Temple, Mens Creatrix ( London, 1917)
Amos Wilder, Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination ( Philadelphia, 1976)
The imagination in theology
Works of theology in which the category of the imagination plays a significant part
Han Urs von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord: a Theological Aesthetics. Vol. 1 ( Edinburgh, 1982)
Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart, Hope Against Hope ( London, 1999)
A Farrer, The Glass of Vision ( London, 1948)
Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
Brian Horne, Imagining Evil ( London, 1996)
Sallie McFague, Metaphorical Theology ( London, 1983)
Sallie McFague, Models of God ( London, 1987)
Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker ( London, 1941)
Initial bibliography for 'Theology and Imagination'
compiled by Michael Paul Gallagher, SJ
- Avis, Paul, God and the creative imagination, London, 1999.
- Babolin, Sante, L'uomo e il suo volto: lezioni di estetica, 1997.
- Babolin, Sante, Sulla funzione comunicative del simbolo, Roma, 1985.
- Bahtin, Mihail, The dialogic imagination, Austin, 1988.
- Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 'Arte Cristiana e annuncio del vangelo' in Mysterium Salutis, I/2, Brescia, 1968.
- Barth, Robert J., The Symbolic Imagination, Princeton, 1977.
- Bednar, Gerald J., Faith as imagination: the contribution of William F. Lynch, S. J., Kansas City, 1996.
Begbie, Jeremy S., Voicing Creation's Praise: towards a theology of the arts, Edinburgh, 1991. - Begbie, Jeremy, ed., Beholding the glory: incarnation through the arts, London, 2000.
- Berger, Peter, Redeeming Laughter: the comic dimension of human experience, New York, 1997.
- Bernard, Charles André, Teologia simbolica, Roma, 1981.
- Bernard, Charles André, 'Symbolisme e conscience affective', Gregorianum (61) 1980, 421-448.
- Bowker, John, The religious imagination and the sense of God, Oxford, 1978.
- Brown, David, Tradition and Imagination, Oxford, 1999.
- Brown, Frank Burch, Religious Aesthetics: a theological study of making and meaning, Princeton, 1989.
- Brown, J. Daniel, Masks of Mystery: explorations in Christian faith and the arts, Lanham, 1997.
- Brueggemann, Walter, 'Preaching as Reimagination', Theology Today (52) 1995, 313-329.
- Bryant, David J., Faith and the Play of Imagination, Macon, 1989.
- Cooke, Bernard J., The Distancing of God: the ambiguity of symbol in history and theology, Minneapolis, 1990.
- Coulson, John, Religion and Imagination: 'in aid of a grammar of assent', Oxford, 1981.
Dillenberger, Jane, Image and Spirit in Sacred and Secular Art , New York , 1990. - Dillenberger, John, A theology of aesthetic sensibilities: the visuals arts and the Church, New York, 1986.
- Dillistone, F. W., The Power of Symbols in Religion and Culture, New York, 1986.
- Driver, Tom F., The Magic of Ritual, San Francisco, 1991.
- Dulles, Avery, 'The Symbolic Structure of Revelation', Theological Studies (41) 1980, 51-73.
- Dulles, Avery, Models of Revelation, Dublin 1983.
- Dupré, Louis, Symbols of the Sacred, Grand Rapids, 2000.
- Dych, William V., 'Theology and Imagination', Thought (57) 1982, 116-127.
- Eusden, J. D. & Westerhoff, J. H., Sensing Beauty: aesthetics, the human spirit and the Church, Cleveland, 1998.
- Farrer, Austin, The Glass of Vision, London, 1948.
- Ferraris, Maurizio, L'Immaginazione, Bologna, 1996.
- Fischer, Kathleen, The Inner Rainbow: the imagination in Christian life, New York, 1983.
- Fowler, James W., 'Faith as Imagination', Chapter 4 in Stages of Faith, San Francisco, 1981.
- Frank Fletcher, 'Towards a Contemporary Australian Retrieval of Sacral Imagination and Sacramentality', Pacifica, (13) February 2000, 1-10.
- Gallagher, M. P., 'Imagination and Faith', The Way (24) 1984, 115-123.
- Gallagher, M. P., 'Teologia, Arte, Discernimento e Cinema', La Civiltà Cattolica ,1995 II, 388-398.
- Gallagher, M. P., Dive Deeper: the human poetry of faith, London, [June] 2001.
- Gallagher, M. P., Struggles of Faith, Dublin, 1990 [esp. Part III 'Literature and Religion'].
- Galván, José M., 'L'Arte come via di evangelizzazione' in Fermenti nella teologia alle soglie del terzo millennio, ed. H. Fitte, Vatican, 1998, 294-303.
- Greco, Carlo e Muratore, Saturnino, a cura di, La conoscenza simbolica, Milano, 1998.
- Greeley, Andrew, Religion as Poetry, New York, 1996.
- Greeley, Andrew, The religious imagination, Los Angeles, 1981.
- Green, Garrett, Imagining God: theology and the religious imagination, San Francisco, 1989.
- Green, Garrett, Theology, Hermeneutics and Imagination, Cambridge, 2000.
- Guerriero, Elio, Il Dramma di Dio: letteratura e teologia in Hans Urs von Balthasar, Milano, 1999.
- Gunn, Giles B., The interpretation of otherness, New York, 1979.
- Hammond, David M., 'Imagination and Hermeneutical Theology: Newman's contribution to theological method', Downside Review (106) 1988, 17-33.
- Hammond, David M., 'Imagination in Newman's Phenomenology of Cognition', Heythrop Journal (29) 1988, 21-32.
- Hammond, David M., 'Imagination in Newman's Phenomenology of Cognition', Heythrop Journal (29) 1988, 21-32.
- Hammond, David M., 'Moral Imagination in Theological Method and Church Tradition: J. H. Newman', Theological Studies (53) 1992, 451-475.
- Harris, Maria, Teaching and the Religious Imagination, New York, 1991.
- Hart, Ray L., Unfinished man and the imagination: toward an ontology and a rhetoric of revelation, New York, 1968.
- Holmes, Urban T., Ministry and Imaginatiion , New York , 1976.
- Johnson, Luke Timothy, 'Imagining the World Scripture Imagines', Modern Theology (14) 1998, 165-177.
- Keane, Philip, Christian Ethics and the Imagination, New York, 1984.
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Kearney, Richard, Poetics of Imagining, Edinburgh, 1998. - Kearney, Richard, Poetics of Modernity, Atlantic Highlands, 1995.
- Kearney, Richard, The Wake of Imagination: toward a postmodern culture, London 1988.
- Leigh, David J., 'Literature, Imagination and the study of Ultimate Reality', Ultimate Reality and Meaning (18) 1995, 222-245.
- Lonergan, Bernard, Method in Theology, London, 1972.
- Louth, Andrew, Discerning the Mystery: an essay on the nature of theology, Oxford, 1983.
- Lynch, William, Christ and Apollo: dimensions of the literary imagination, Notre Dame, 1960.
- Lynch, William, Christ and Prometheus: a new image of the secular, Notre Dame, 1970.
- Lynch, William, Images of Faith: an exploration of the ironic imagination, Notre Dame, 1973.
- Lynch, William, Images of Hope: imagination as healer of the hopeless, Notre Dame, 1965.
- Lynch, William, The Image Industries, New York, 1959.
- MacDonald, George, 'The Imagination' & 'The Fantastic Imagination' from A Dish of Orts, 1893, available on the George MacDonald website.
- Mackey, James P. ed., Religious Imagination, Edinburgh, 1986.
- Mackey, James P., ed. issue of Irish Theological Quarterly (52) 1986, devoted to Imagination [articles by Iris Murdoch, John Navone and others].
- McFague, Sallie, Literature and the Christian Life, New Haven, 1966.
- McGregor, Neil, Seeing Salvation: images of Christ in art, London, 2000.
- McIntyre, John, Faith, Theology and Imagination, Edinburgh, 1987.
- Miles, Margaret, Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture, Boston, 1985.
- Mooney, Hilary Anne-Marie, 'Bernard Lonergan and the Role of the Aesthetic in Theology', Irish Theological Quarterly (63) 1998, 362-378.
- Mueller, J. J., 'The role of theological symbols in mediating cultural change', in Communication and Lonergan, ed. T. J. Farrell & P. A. Soukup, Kansas, 1993, pp. 294-311.
- Murphy, Francesca Aran, Christ the form of beauty: a study in theology and literature, Edinburgh, 1995.
- Navone, John, Seeking God in Story, Collegeville, 1990.
- Navone, John, Toward a Theology of Beauty, Collegeville, 1996.
- Nichols, Aidan, The Art of God Incarnate: theology and image in Christian tradition, London, 1979.
- Neuman, Matthias L., The Imagination in Theology: some contemporary American and British perspectives, Rome, 1976.
- Rahner, Karl, 'Poet and Priest' in Theological Investigations, III, London, 1967.
- Rahner, Karl, 'The Theology of the Religious Meaning of Images' in Theological Investigations, XXIII, London, 1992.
- Rahner, Karl, 'The Theology of the Symbol' and 'Poetry and the Christian' in Theological Investigations, IV, London, 1966.
- Rahner, Karl, 'Theology and the Arts', Thought (57) 1982, 17-29.
- Riches, John, ed., The Analogy of Beauty: the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Edinburch, 1986.
- Ross-Bryant, Lynn, Imagination and the Life of the Spirit, Chico, 1981.
- Rupnik, Marko I., L'arte: memoria della comunione, Roma, 1994.
- Salmann, Elmar, La teologia è un romanzo, Milano, 2000.
Salmann, Elmar, Presenza di Spirito: Il cristianesimo come gesto e pensiero, Padova, 2000. - Scott, Nathan, The Broken Center: studies in the theological horizon of modern literature, New Haven, 1966.
- Shea, John, Stories of Faith, Cork, 1989.
- Sherry, Patrick, Spirit and Beauty: an introduction to theological aesthetics, Oxford, 1992.
- Shorter, Aylward, Christianity and the African Imagination, Nairobi, 1996.
- Soskice, Janet M., Metaphor and religious language, Oxford, 1987.
- Spadaro, Antonio, 'Il contributo di Karl Rahner per una teologia della letteratura', Rassegna di Teologia (41) 2000, 661-676.
- Spadaro, Antonio, 'La religiosità di un'opera letteraria', La Civiltà Cattolica, 1999 II, 45-54.
- Steiner, George, Real Presences, London, 1989.
- Swiatecka, M. Jadwiga, O.P., The Idea of the Symbol: some nineteenth century comparisons with Coleridge, Cambridge, 1980.
- Taylor, Dennis, 'The need for a religious literary criticism', Religion and the Arts (1) 1996, 124-150.
- Thiessen, Gesa, Theology and modern Irish art, Dublin, 1999.
Tourenne, Y., 'Amorce d'une esthétique théologique chez Karl Rahner', Revue des Sciences Religieuses (85) 1997, 383-418. - Tracy, David, The Analogical Imagination, New York, 1981.
- Viladesau, Richard, Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty and Art , New York , 1999.
- Viladesau, Richard, Theology and the Arts: Encountering God through Music, Art and Rhetoric, New York, 2000.
- Warnock, Mary, Imagination, London, 1976.
- Weakland, Rembert G., 'Aesthetic and religious experience in evangelization', Theology Digest (44) 1997, 319-330.
- Wilder, Amos, Theopoetic, Philadelphia, 1976.
- Wolfe, Gregory, ed., The New Religious Humanists - a reader, New York, 1997.
- Wright, T. R., Theology and Literature, Oxford, 1988.