The Christian imagination is anti-Gnostic. The Judeo-Christian imagination is not a flight from physical reality. . . . It refuses to separate salvation from creation, the life of the spirit from its inception in the flesh. . . . In the world to come, nothing good from this one will be lost, only transformed.

A Christian imagination does not see the world as a prison from which the soul must escape, but as the stage of humanity's interaction with its God. This world makes sense. God made it with a plan . . . ; it is the imagination's rule to delight in this plan. It sees reality not as a horror to abolish but as an ongoing revelation to orchestrate in praise, as an unfolding mystery in which we have a role.

Janine Langan, "The Christian Imagination"