Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology - Paperback

by Jason Goroncy (Editor), Rod Pattenden (Editor), Ben Quash (Foreword by)

This book explores the vital role of the imagination in today's complex climates--cultural, environmental, political, racial, religious, spiritual, intellectual, etc. It asks: What contribution do the arts make in a world facing the impacts of globalism, climate change, pandemics, and losses of culture? What wisdom and insight, and orientation for birthing hope and action in the world, do the arts offer to religious faith and to theological reflection? These essays, poems, and short reflections--written by art practitioners and academics from a diversity of cultures and religious traditions--demonstrate the complex cross-cultural nature of this conversation, examining critical questions in dialogue with various art forms and practices, and offering a way of understanding how the human imagination is formed, sustained, employed, and expanded. Marked by beauty and wonder, as well as incisive critique, it is a unique collection that brings unexpected voices into a global conversation about imagining human futures.

Author Biography

Jason Goroncy is associate professor of theology in the University of Divinity, Australia.



Rod Pattenden is an adjunct fellow with the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture.