Thinking Things Through

The life of a philosopher is foremost the life of thinking but it is also the life of imagination that dreams of and investigates pos- sibilities that might not otherwise have been raised. The life of a Christian is the life of Faith, Hope and Charity, and so it both looks to things beyond this world and regards this world with compassion. The two can work together. Faith softens reason, and reason sharpens Faith. Imagination finds new ways to articu- late in concrete circumstances what has belo