In the earliest decades of Christianity, before the Bible had been written, what did Christians depend on for soul formation and ideas about the person of Jesus Christ? Imagination.
The imagination was key to early Christianity, but it has slowly been smothered by the processes of dull theology, the digital sea, and false secular iconography. That is the thesis of a new book, Becoming by Beholding: The Power of the Imagination in Spiritual Formation. Author Lanta Davis, a professor of humanities and literature in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University, succeeds in opening readers’ eyes again to the essential role the imagination plays on what she calls “soul formation.”
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