Alive in God: A Christian Imagination, Paperback

Timothy Radcliffe considers the strength of the Christian imagination in its ability inspire others.

How can Christianity touch the imagination of our contemporaries when ever fewer people in the West identify as religious? Timothy Radcliffe argues we must show how everything we believe is an invitation to live fully. God says: "I put before you life and death: choose life."

Anyone who understands the beauty and messiness of human life--novelists, poets, filmmakers and so on--can be our allies, whether they believe or not. The challenge is not today's secularism but its banality.
We accompany the disciples as they struggle to understand this strange man who heals, casts out demons and offers endless forgiveness. In the face of death, he teaches them what it means to be alive in God. Then he embraces all that afflicts and crushes humanity. Finally, Radcliffe explores what it means for us to be alive spiritually, physically, sacramentally, justly and prayerfully. The result is a compelling new understanding of the words of Jesus: "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."

Timothy Radcliffe is a former Master of the Dominican Order in Rome. Educated at Downside and St John's College, Oxford, he then joined the Dominican Order in 1968. He has written a string of bestselling books for Bloomsbury Continuum over the past 15 years--most notably What's The Point of Being a Christian; Why Go to Church? and I Call You Friends. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford, a city in which he now lives with his Community.