Quotes from Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen

Reason needs the imagination and at the same time must transcend it because what really matters is the search for truth.

As Christians our task is to mirror the divine artist as faithfully as possible. Aquinas, like his fellow thinkers, equates imagination with fantasy. He affirms the mediating function of the imagination between mind and body and perceives it as `a treasure-store of forms received through the senses