THRS 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Asceticism
8 Nov 2017
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Creative faculty that is vital or life-giving; precisely about making things real. What is needed is to give it a local habitation and a name, to realize it and make it real. People who disagree too often have too narrow a view and simply lack imagination. Augustine: no one can choose nothing over something (137) Paul ricoeur: the prime issue was a matter not of will but of imagination. Stalin: death of one person is a tragedy, but the death of a million persons is a statistic. Reasons not to act and serve others: insecurity, worry about effectiveness, selfishness. Mostly because we cannot imagine what to do. Putting oneself aside; don"t see thru one"s line of vision so that they can see what is there. To turn from the mirror in order to look out the window . Christians are called to be realists; to be interested in the truth; to be joyful and hopeful.
