Sentences with phrase «as imaginative construction»

And here, I think, we come to a question that challenges the viability of a theology conceived as imaginative construction: Granted that religious symbols and frameworks function to orient people in the world, could they do so if we believed that this were their only meaning?

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Nor, it might be pressed, is this objection avoided by appealing to Whitehead's explicitly adopted method of metaphysical construction, the method of imaginative generalization (of which his plea here as in effect an expression).

Thus, complexity in types and relations between acts of minding may have grown exponentially with the evolution of «higher» organisms as the imaginative element in the construction of reality became more socially diffused; i.e. as the construction of reality became more participatory - negotiary in character.

As, for Frye, the symbolic construction of a literary work is a microcosm of all literature, so a congregation reflects the imaginative struggle of societies everywhere to congregate.