Here I am rebloging again, but this Andrew Greeley article on “The Catholic Imagination of Bruce Springsteen” is too good not to share. This is my vision of Catholic Spirituality! Andrew Greeley and The Boss!
On the Relationship between Religion and Imagination
The imagination is religious. Religion is imaginative. The origins and the power of both are in the playful, creative, dancing self.
On the Uniqueness of the Catholic Imagination
A word about the Catholic imagination: Unlike the other religions of Yahweh, Catholicism has always stood for the accessibility of God in the world. God is more like the world than unlike it.
(The Catholic Imagination of Bruce Springsteen)
The objects, events, and persons of ordinary existence hint at the nature of God and indeed make God in some fashion present to us. God is sufficiently like creation that creation not only tells us something about God but, by so doing, also makes God present among us.
(The Catholic Imagination p. 6)
Catholics live in an enchanted world, a world of statues and holy water, stained glass…
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