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Religious Education
The official journal of the Religious Education Association
Volume 111, 2016 - Issue 4
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Imagination Embodied: The Sacraments Reappropriated

 

Abstract

Inspired by the 2015 REA Atlanta conference theme, The Power of Imagining: The Life Giving Possibilities of Education in Faith, this article proposes a postmodern reclamation of imagination as the human bridge to sacramentally encounter the Divine. It re-examines sacramental religious education retrieving imagination from material fundamentalism, refocusing the sacraments on societal as well as personal development, and counteracting body/spirit dualism by relating sacramental graces and body energy centers.

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Robert T. O’Gorman

Robert T. O’Gorman lives in Nashville, Tennessee and is Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago. E-mail: [email protected]

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