Abstract
Closely following the philosopher Richard Kearney’s "The wake of imagination" (1988) and "The poetics of imagining" (1991), the historical trial of the act of imagination is explicated. The implications of this very act of imagination are explored within a postmodern context. The question of the reconstruction of a christology within such apostmodern context, characterised by epistemological undecideahility and depthlessness, is addressed.
Highlights
Following the philosopher Richard Kearney’s 'The wake o f imagination" (1988) and "The poetics o f imagining" (1991), the historical trial o f the act o f imagination is explicated
Four questions will lead our way: (1) Why tell the story of imagination; (2) W here do we begin with the story and what is this story; (3) W hat is the implications of this story within a postmodern context and (4) for christology?
I believe that all the different modes/ways of empowerment within a society, are executed as concrete acts of imagining, that is, dreams that have become visions, and visions that have become concrete acts of changing "ways of being" in this world
Summary
The birth of the human power of imagining (in Hebrew yeiseA, from the same root as the term for "creation/create") coincides with Adam’s transgression of God’s law. Man can choose or refuse evil as an option of its human imagination as it constructs its historical destiny. In this sense imagination was a mixed blessing (liberation and curse). Proceeding from the story of Adam and within the broader Hebraic world of interpretation of the significance of imagination, four fundamental properties can be identified in the H ebraic imagination, namely (a) mimetic, that is, a human imitation of the divine act of creation; (b) ethical, that is, a choice between good and evil; (c) historical, that is, a projection of future possibilities of existence and (d) anthropological, that is, as activity proper to man which opens up a freedom of becoming beyond the necessity of cosmic being
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