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Gregory J. Laughery explores the perennial struggle to understand imagination; a notable trademark of many poets, philosophers, and theologians throughout the centuries, and right up to the present. Ancient thinkers and bards disputed the functional capacity of imagination to create or connect to the world, while contemporary writers and theorists ponder its contribution to making or discovering meaning. Over the course of time, efforts to figure out whether imagination is destructive or useful are unresolved. One of the key reasons for writing this book is to engage this controversy in an...

Paul Ricoeur was one of the most prolific thinkers of the twentieth century. There have been many books written on Ricoeur's philosophy, but very little is available on his theological trajectory and its connection to biblical interpretation. Gregory Laughery's Living Hermeneutics aims to fill that lacuna. He brings to life the diverse ways in which Ricoeur's work can contribute to and open up viable possibilities for critiquing both modernist and postmodernist orientations, while offering new theological and hermeneutical directions for understanding the text, the reader, and the...

Adam and Eve? Magic trees in the Garden? Was the world created in six days? Is evolution found in the Bible? Are science and the Bible at war with each other? What's it all about?



The significance of early Genesis - and how we read its narratives and their relevance for today - is currently generating a lot of questions. Discoveries from various disciplines about ourselves and the wider world are prompting an urgent need for credible methods of interpretation and ways of understanding that can engage in challenging...