Faithful imagining
Subtitle: essays in honor of Richard R. Niebuhr
By: edited by Sang Hyun Lee, Wayne Proudfoot, Albert Blackwell.
Contributors: Niebuhr, Richard R.; Lee, Sang Hyun, 1938-; Proudfoot, Wayne, 1939-; Blackwell, Albert.
Publisher: Scholars Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Atlanta, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Imagination -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Imagination -- Religious aspects.
Description: Written from different perspectives, attending in some cases to particular writers and artists and in others to broader topics, each of these essays illumines some aspect of the imaginative component in religion.

These studies analyze some of the ways in which nature, self, and community have been imagined religiously. Included are essays on Augustine, Dante, Jonathan Edwards, William James, Charles Peirce, Frida Kahlo, and Richard R. Niebuhr, and on such varied topics as the Manichaeans, the Qur'an, ecology, meditation, and contemporary conceptions of university and church. The authors and editors have prepared them as a tribute to Richard R. Niebuhr, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard University.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.