Tools
Tools
Fletcher, Frank (2000) Towards a Contemporary Australian Retrieval of Sacral Imagination and Sacramentality. Pacifica, 13 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1030-570X
Full text not available from this repository.Abstract
A theologian of Ghana argues that the West is declining in adherence to Christian Faith because its cultural meanings which are constitutive of the human and the cosmos tend to suppress human sacral imagination and the sacramentality of the cosmos. This author wagers that the Ghanaian’s position is correct and goes on to explore how this suppression of sacral imagination has taken place through the cultural changes in the West from pre-modernity to modernity and up to the present. Against the argument behind these cultural changes the author seeks to establish the validity of sacral imagination and sacramentality through a critical appropriation of the human subject as incarnate spirit and symbolic animal. A contemporary Australian spirituality might thus retrieve a capacity for sacral imagination adequate to the mystery carried in this land and to the redemptive hope needed in Australian society.
| Item Type: | Published Articles |
|---|---|
| Repository Version: | Metadata Only |
| Keywords (separated by commas): | sacral imagination, sacramentality, incarnate spirit, symbolic animal, Australian society |
| Fields of Research: | 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies > 2204 Religion and Religious Studies > 220405 Religion and Society |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | C Society > 95 Cultural Understanding > 9504 Religion and Ethics > 950404 Religion and Society |
| Type of Activity: | Pure Basic Research |
| Subject Area(s): | D - Spirituality and Spiritual Direction |
| Association with MCD: | Pacifica |
| Depositing User: | Cate Headey |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2011 02:15 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2011 02:15 |
| URI: | http://repository.mcd.edu.au/id/eprint/779 |
Actions (login required)
| View Item |
