Introduction

1. Imagination
Imagining a world
Imagination and reason
Religious imagination
Interlude: imagination and science
The dual role of imagination
Appendix: imagination and human evolution

2. Tradition
Memory and anticipation
Religious traditions
Tradition and (post)modernity
Fundamentalism and bricolage
Memory and anticipation reconsidered

3. Prayer
Never-ending introspection
Conversation with God
The pluriformity of prayer
The language of prayer

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4. Self
The (dis)armed subject
Meeting the other
The guilty self
Confession of guilt
Amor ergo sum

5. God
God is dead
God is there
God withdraws
God is near
God is one

6. World
Theistic imagination
World as history
World as evolution
World as cosmos
World as creation

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7. Memory
Jesus in history
Leading images: incarnation and resurrection
The paradigm of sacrifice
The coming of the Son of Man

8. Anticipation
The kingdom of God
The unity of humankind
The individual not-yet
Life-death-life

9. Mission
Missionary dynamic
Dispersing
Gathering
Church
World

A Personal Epilogue

Index

About the Author

Dr Libertus Hoedemaker is Professor Emeritus of Groningen State University and the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Netherlands. He has held academic positions in Indonesia and the Netherlands, and guest professorships in the USA, Hong Kong and Switzerland. His previous publications include The Theology of H. Richard Niebuhr; Secularization and Mission: A Theological Essay; and a chapter in Foust et al, A Scandalous Prophet: The Way of Mission after Newbigin.

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With his claim that the 'unfinished business' of tradition is to re-imagine Jesus Christ in ten thousand places, and his gift for making the familiar ('church'; 'world') strange again, Hoedemaker writes as a poet of Christian mission. In an increasingly politicized world, here is a timely and impassioned plea for engaging the Christian tradition as an eschatological vision of reconciliation, of a humankind beyond polarization.
*Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School*

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