{"product_id":"9780567581662","title":"John Henry Newman and the Imagination","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Henry Newman and the Imagination\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Bernard Dive\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor  John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative 'master  vision' which 'supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace'. All his  life, Newman reflected on this 'master vision'. His reflections on the  moral imagination developed out of his understanding of practical  wisdom, as characterized by Aristotle – the wisdom that 'the good man'  has in living a good life. For Newman, the vision at the core of  religion completes and perfects the intuitions of the conscience.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Henry Newman and the Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e  looks at how Newman's thinking about the moral and visionary  imagination developed over the course of his life; it relates that  thinking to his portrayals of religious experience, and vision, in his  novels and his poetry. It presents fresh insights into the thought of  one of the greatest visionaries of the Victorian age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dive’s interdisciplinary dialogue succeeds in presenting a cumulative picture of the English cardinal on the imagination. The work includes splendid vignettes on poetical vision … Each section is richly informative … Dive raises important questions for the contemporary discourse on the Catholic imagination, drawing attention to the practical import and the spirituality of image.” —\u003ci\u003eStephen Prickett, Theology\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Newman’s mind was one of the most extraordinary of the European  nineteenth century. This book examines in close detail the development  of his ideas, philosophical, theological and psychological – the strands  never separate – from his first book and the sermons of his youth as an  Anglican priest to the complexities of \u003ci\u003eA Grammar of Assent\u003c\/i\u003e, the  masterpiece of his Catholic maturity. Bernard Dive sheds most welcome  light on the creative originality of Newman’s writing, and in particular  on his use of the key terms, of which ‘imagination’ is only one, with  which he lived and thought for decades. Those interested in, and perhaps  puzzled by, Newman will find their understanding much enriched by Dr  Dive’s work.\" —\u003ci\u003eLucy Beckett, author of In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a rich, illuminating, and supremely well-informed study of Newman's imaginative mind. It is, moreover, the finest book on Blessed John Henry I have read.\" —\u003ci\u003eStephen Bullivant, St Mary's University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780567581662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"T\u0026T Clark","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40600482939086,"sku":"9780567581662","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_98aa9481-4c0e-4a54-92df-a4048eacdfce.jpg?v=1637971327","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780567581662","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}