Angels and Dreams: Second Naivete and the Christian Imagination

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Angels and dreams, prophecy and fulfilment: these themes appear repeatedly throughout the birth narratives in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. But what are we to make of them in an age of scientific enlightenment and historical scepticism?

Sarah Coakley. ABC Religion and Ethics. 29 December 2015

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2 thoughts on “Angels and Dreams: Second Naivete and the Christian Imagination”

  1. ‘For we come to church, week by week – do we not? – to be changed, to be moved from the condition in which we entered to somewhere else: otherwise, what on earth are we doing there?’
    Some of us come, in the words of the Prayer Book, ‘to acknowledge our sins before God….to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy Word, and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul’.

    Phil Almond

  2. ‘…let alone a collapse into naive fundamentalism…’
    It would be helpful if Sarah Coakley gave some examples of what she regards as ‘naïve fundamentalism’

    Phil Almond

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