UNIMAGINABLE: WHAT WE IMAGINE AND WHAT WE CAN’T

Book ID/图书代码： 06545018C00020

English Summary/英文概要： What we imagine can crush us or create us, destroy us or heal us; it can pitch us into battles with demons or set us among the songs of angels. It has roots beneath consciousness and is expressed in moods, rhythms, tones and textures of experience that are as much mental as physiological. In his new book, a sequel to the earlier Unbelievable, one of Britain’s most exciting writers on religion here presents a nuanced and many-dimensional portrait of the mystery and creativity of the human imagination. Discussing the likes of William Wordsworth, William Turner, Samuel Palmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams, so as to assess the true meanings of originality and memory, and drawing on his own rich encounters with belief, Graham Ward asks why it is that the imagination is so fundamental to who and what we are. Using metaphor and story to unpeel the hidden motivations and architecture of the mind, the author grapples with profound questions of ultimacy and transcendence. He reveals that, in understanding what it really means to be human, what cannot be imagined invariably means as much as what can.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们所想象的事物可以粉碎我们或创造我们，毁灭我们或治愈我们；它可以把我们推向与恶魔的战斗，也可以让我们置身于天使的歌声之中。它根植于意识之下，以经验的情绪、节奏、音调和质感来表达，而这些既是心理层面的，也是生理层面的。在新书，《难以置信》的续集中，作为英国最具实力的宗教作家之一，作者展现了人类想象力的神秘性和创造性的微妙和多维。为了评估原创性和记忆力的真正含义，Graham Ward在讨论威廉•华兹华斯、威廉•特纳、塞缪尔•帕尔默和拉尔夫•沃恩•威廉姆斯等人时，借助自己丰富的信仰经历，提出了这个问题——为什么想象力对我们是谁和什么是如此重要。作者通过隐喻和故事来揭开隐藏的心理动机和大脑的构造，试图解决终极性和超越性的深层问题。他指出，在理解作为人类的真正含义时，那些无法想象的往往和能够想象的同样重要。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：Graham Ward英国宗教界最重要的神学家和公众思想家之一

本书将吸引各个领域的读者，包括宗教、哲学、文化研究、文学等

“一场探讨我们存在基础的深刻而令人愉悦的旅途。我一定会经常重读本书。”——A N Wilson

“对我们的理解做出了独特而强大的贡献。不容错过。”——Maggie Ross

• Graham Ward is one of the foremost theologians and public thinkers on religion in the UK

• will attract sales from across disciplines: religion, philosophy, cultural studies, literature and beyond

‘...a profound and richly enjoyable journey towards the ground of our being. I know this is a text which I shall often revisit.’ - A N Wilson ‘...a unique and powerful contribution to our understanding. Not to be missed.’ - Maggie Ross

About the Author/作者介绍： Graham Ward，牛津大学神学院教授。曾经担任《文学与神学》杂志的编辑，写了很多书，探讨宗教、神学、文学和文化理论等各种主题，包括《巴斯，德里达和神学语言》（1995）《神学与当代批判理论》（1996）《激进正统：新神学》（与John Milbank和Catherine Pickstock编辑，1998），《真宗教》（2002）《文化转型与宗教实践》（2010）《难以置信：为什么我们相信和为什么我们不相信》（I.B.Tururi，2014）。

Graham Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. A former editor of the journal Literature and Theology, he has written numerous books which explore varied topics in religion, theology, literature and literary and cultural theory. These include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology (1995), Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory (1996), Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (edited with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock, 1998), The Certeau Reader (2000), True Religion (2002), Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (2010) and Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don’t (I.B.Tauris, 2014).

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