imagination is required
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From Jeremy Begbie’s Resounding Truth
… imagination is required…By imagination here I am speaking of the ability to perceive connections between things that are not spelled out, not immediately apparent on the surface… First and foremost, imagination of this sort should be applied to our reading of scripture. we need to live inside the world of these texts and inhabit them so deeply that we begin to recognise links, lines of association, and webs of meaning that may not always be laid out explicitly or at any length but that nevertheless give scripture its coherence, contours and overall directions.…similar imaginative skills need to be applied to our reading of the world through the doctrine we discover. Good doctrine jolts our perspectives and shakes up the way we view things; it invites us to perceive the world in a different way……a third way: we ask what it means to live in and live out this “reading of the world,” to ask how life could be (indeed, must be) different. … This demands imagination because, of course, the Bible does not spell out the details of Christian behaviour for all times… The church needs to improvise imaginatively…
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