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- Title
Imagination, Hope, and Reconciliation in Ricoeur and Moltmann.
- Authors
CLAWSON, JULIE
- Abstract
This article explores how Paul Ricoeur's interpretation theory of a hermeneutic of imagination makes possible the healing and recon-ciling modes of being in the world that Jiirgen Moltmann's theology of hope proposes. It describes how Moltmann's theology calls the Christian to embrace the kingdom of God neither as "opium from beyond" nor as a "utopia of the status quo." Instead, he argues that Christians are to anticipate the coming kingdom by meeting it in the present through healing and hopeful acts of discipleship in community with Christ. The article then argues that applying Ricoeur's interpretive theory to this "already but not yet" position of healing hope can help the Christian navigate its dialogical ten-sions. It describes Ricoeur's theory that it is through a hermeneutic of imagination which struggles with the constant extremes of ideol-ogy and utopia that the community can interact with and interpret the event of the incarnation. It concludes that this imaginative act of ever interpreting the ongoing event of the Word being made flesh allows one to embrace the eschatological hope of the kingdom of God that offers reconciliation and healing.
- Subjects
RECONCILIATION in religion -- Christianity; IMAGINATION in religion; HOPE in Christianity; RICOEUR, Paul, 1913-2005; MOLTMANN, Jurgen, 1926-2024; KINGDOM of God; THEOLOGY
- Publication
Anglican Theological Review, 2013, Vol 95, Issue 2, p293
- ISSN
0003-3286
- Publication type
Article