What is, and why the "Ministry of Imagination"?
The serious question of how to meet our Maker often, in this life, with well-informed imagination, is explored in the context of spiritual direction. I recently started the "Ministry of Imagination" to explore more widely "how do we meet our Maker often, in this life, with well-informed imagination, as individuals, communities and as nations?".
I resonate with the words of author Garrett Green:
"Imagination, properly understood as the name of a basic human ability, one of the things that people do in the course of living in, acting on, and thinking about the world, identifies that specific point where, according to Christian belief and experience, the Word of God becomes effective in human lives. More formally: imagination is the anthropological point of contact for divine revelation. It is not the "foundation," the "ground," the "preunderstanding," or the "ontological basis" for revelation; it is simply the place where it happens, better, the way in which it happens."
- Garret Green, Imagining God: Theology and the Religious Imagination, 1998.