Liam Semler

"The Eyes of Your Heart"

Arts & Literature

“Alison Searle's The Eyes of Your Heart is a fresh and provocative contribution to the particularly challenging field of the biblical imagination. With her eyes fixed firmly on discovering what it means to imagine biblically, Dr. Searle charts her own steady path through the tangled jungle of theoretical approaches to the subject to arrive at a coherent and transferable understanding of the biblical imagination. One of this book's great virtues is its detailed exploration of what it means to imagine biblically across a temporally and stylistically diverse range of works by Bunyan, Rutherford, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and C. S. Lewis. Dr. Searle's refreshing literary analysis combine with incisive probing of key theoretical tropes to produce a new understanding of imagining biblically that is more robust and satisfying than mere aesthetic theory.”