All Roads: Roamin' Catholic Apologetics by Dale Ahlquist

Author:Dale Ahlquist [Ahlquist, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Saint Benedict Press
Published: 2015-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

THE TRUMPET OF IMAGINATION

The purpose of the imagination is to make us more like God. Sounds like something a serpent might say. But it’s not. That really is the purpose of the imagination. To make us more like God. After all, our imagination is a gift from God. It is perhaps one of the greatest gifts God has given us. It not only separates us from the beasts, it allows us to create new worlds of our own. Our imagination gives us a kind of omnipotence. There is almost nothing that we cannot do within the infinity of our minds. The Creator has made us in His own image. That is, he has made us creators. Our creativity is re-creation. And yes, it is recreation as well. It is restorative and rejuvenating. It is a pleasure. It is peace. It is a gift that we have abused, but perhaps even worse, it is a gift we have left unused.

G.K. Chesterton says that imagination is perhaps the mightiest of the pleasures of man. But what is the use of these images that we make inside our heads?

Our first use of imagination, chronologically, that is, comes in the nursery. The four walls, within which we find ourselves as children, seem to be filled with endless worlds of adventure. Fairy tales serve an important role in our imagination. Left to ourselves, our imagination can go astray, even very early on. The fairy tales are the first way we are put on the right track. As Chesterton says:

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