Table of Contents

Contents

1. Toward a Normative Christian Imagination
Part 1: Imagination and Theological Hermeneutics
2. Myth, History, and Imagination: The Creation Narratives in the Bible and Theology
3. Who's Afraid of Ludwig Feuerbach? Suspicion and the Religious Imagination
4. The Crisis of Mainline Christianity and the Liberal Failure of Imagination
5. Hans Frei and the Hermeneutics of the Second Naivete
Part 2: Metaphor, Aesthetics, and Gender
6. The Mirror, the Lamp, and the Lens: On the Limits of Imagination
7. Barth on Beauty: The Ambivalence of Reformed Aesthetics
8. The Gender of God and the Theology of Metaphor
Part 3: Modernity and Eschatology in Christian Imagination
9. The Adulthood of the Modern Age: Hamann's Critique of Kantian Enlightenment
10. Kant as Christian Apologist: The Failure of Accommodationist Theology
11. Moltmann's Two Eschatologies
12. The Eschatological Imagination
Part 4: Theology of Religion and the Religions
13. The Myth of Religion: How to Think Christianly in a Secular World
14. Pluralism and the Religious Imagination
15. Imaginary Gods and the Anonymous Christ
Part 5: Conclusion
16. Christian Theology in a Post-Christian Age
Index

About the Author

Garrett Green (PhD, Yale University) is Class of 1943 Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, where he has taught for over four decades. He is the author of several books, including Imagining God: Theology and the Religious Imagination.