Converting the Imagination
Teaching to Recover Jesus' Vision for Fullness of Life
- 176 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
For two thousand years countless people around the world viewed reality through a Christian lens that endowed their lives with meaning, purpose, and coherence. Today, in an era of unprecedented secularization, many have ceased to find meaning not only in Christianity but in life in general. In Converting the Imagination, Patrick Manning offers a probing analysis of this crisis of meaning, marshalling historical and psychological research to shed light on the connections among the disintegration of the Christian worldview, religious disaffiliation, and a growing mental health epidemic. As a response Manning presents an approach to religious education that is at once traditionally grounded in the model of Jesus' own teaching and augmented by modern educational research and cognitive science. Converting the Imagination is an invitation to transform the way we teach about faith and make sense of the world, an invitation that echoes Jesus' invitation to a fuller, more meaningful life. It is sure to captivate scholars and practitioners of religious education, ministers seeking to reengage people who have drifted away from the faith or to support young people suffering from existential anxiety, and anyone in search of deeper meaning in their religious traditions or in their own lives.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Editors’ Preface
- Gratitudes
- Introduction: A Fading Vision
- Chapter 1: Jesus’ Vision for Fullness of Life
- Chapter 2: Post-modern Challenges to Fullness of Life
- Chapter 3: Teaching for Conversion to a New Way of Imagining
- Chapter 4: Introduction to the SEE Approach and Movement 1: STIMULATING THE IMAGINATION
- Chapter 5: Movement 2: Expanding the Imagination
- Chapter 6: Movement 3: Embracing a New Way of Imagining
- Chapter 7: SEE and Seeing Beyond
- Bibliography