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Imagination As Active Perception
- Malcolm Guite reframes imagination as a truth-discerning power, not mere fantasy.
- He argues imagination actively shapes perception and makes sense of sensory data into meaning.
Imagination Mirrors Divine Creation
- Guite links Coleridge's primary imagination to God's creative Word, making human imagination a reflection of divine creation.
- He suggests our imaginative faculty participates in the eternal act of creation and reveals meaning, not just appearances.
Poetry Parallels Incarnation
- Guite reads Shakespeare's line about imagination 'giving to airy nothingness a local habitation and a name' alongside John's Gospel.
- He sees poetry's embodiment of meaning as parallel to the Word made flesh giving visible form to divine truth.