Living Forms of the Imagination

This book is essential reading for those interested in the imagination epistemology naturalism and the philosophy of religion. - Charles Taliaferro Professor of Philosophy St. Olaf College Minnesota<br />Â <br />The role of imagination in psychology ethics and aesthetics provides a good analogy for thinking about the imagination in religious belief. in dealing with the inner lives of other human beings moral values or aesthetic qualities we need to employ the imagination: to suppose form hypotheses empathize or imaginatively engage with alien people or worlds in order to understand. Just as we use the imagination to relate to other minds appreciate beauty and understand goodness we need imagination to engage with God's action in the world.<br />