Dexter E. Callender Jr.

Imagining God

Theology

“Humberto Casanova offers a cogent assessment of the reception and use of biblical imagery in the Western theological imagination through a lucid and in-depth examination of the categories of myth and metaphor. . . . His diagnosis of the current crisis of Christian theology traces the problem to a reliance upon metaphors that are disconnected from contemporary life. The remedy calls for no less than a ‘radical new vision of God,’ one that replaces outdated source domain images with fresh metaphors generated by the institutions and values of today.”