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George MacDonald and the Scientific Imagination

George MacDonald and the Scientific Imagination

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ISBN10: 1935688707
ISBN13: 9781935688709
Publisher: Winged Lion Press, LLC
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.76
Height: 0.75 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

George MacDonald's embrace of the imagination as an instrument for apprehending reality heals a deep-seated cultural split between science and wonder. That split is characterized by two opposing kinds of realism: on one hand, a positivist realism which reduces reality to nothing but what is evident to sensory perception, and, on the other hand, an imaginative realism which apprehends the as-yet unseen, unknown, and unfinished in-depth realities which lie beyond and beneath the surface appearances of things. With special attention to MacDonald's novel Thomas Wingfold, Curate and 19th-century geology, this interpretative essay explores how MacDonald's holistic integration of reality, given the perceptive and creative role of the imagination, applies to the natural sciences as well as to religious faith, literature and the fine arts. The imagination is then given legitimate scope to play as the source not only of wonder but also of creative discovery within the very fabric of natural science. Without imagination, the sciences perish.

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