Fantasy and the Geography of Faith
“We want to be able at last, through the power of story, to rediscover our own world. So, in our imaginations—late at night, with extra coffee poured—we stretch out on the wide table before us all the ancient maps that we've gathered. … We reach for every possibility, in our ravenous effort to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1993
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Theology today
Year: 1993, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 397-408 |
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| Summary: | “We want to be able at last, through the power of story, to rediscover our own world. So, in our imaginations—late at night, with extra coffee poured—we stretch out on the wide table before us all the ancient maps that we've gathered. … We reach for every possibility, in our ravenous effort to quench the geographical thirst that drives us. Through it all, we long to uncover new and unexplored landscapes of the imagination, realizing that the deepest human impulse is to ‘map’ not only what one knows but also what one hopes.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057369305000306 |