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At the Base Camp
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This portion of the book presents two paradigms by which knowledge, the imagination, and literature can be connected. The first (more familiar one) holds that while imagining, one accesses knowledge that is then added to what is known without imagining. The second proposes that some knowledge can be possessed only while imagining. (Some) religious poetry aims to aid the believer in entering and sustaining imagining of the second kind. For faith, the ability to go on dwelling in an imaginary mindscape is not connected just to knowledge, but is a condition for meaningful living. Connections between the book’s argument and overlapping proposals regarding the religious imagination are pointed out.
Title: At the Base Camp
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This portion of the book presents two paradigms by which knowledge, the imagination, and literature can be connected.
The first (more familiar one) holds that while imagining, one accesses knowledge that is then added to what is known without imagining.
The second proposes that some knowledge can be possessed only while imagining.
(Some) religious poetry aims to aid the believer in entering and sustaining imagining of the second kind.
For faith, the ability to go on dwelling in an imaginary mindscape is not connected just to knowledge, but is a condition for meaningful living.
Connections between the book’s argument and overlapping proposals regarding the religious imagination are pointed out.
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