Image in Mind

Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf College, USA, and is the author of Consciousness and the Mind of God, Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and religion since the seventeenth century, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Dialogues About God, Philosophy of Religion: A Beginners Guide and the co-author of Naturalism. He is the co-editor of A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge Platonist Spirituality, and the Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology. He was the philosophy of religion area editor of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, second edition and is on the editorial board of Religious Studies, Sophia, Blackwell's Philosophy Compass, American Philosophical Quarterly, and Ars Disputandi. Taliaferro has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, NYU, Columbia, Princeton, and St. Andrews University.Jil Evans (MFA Stanford University) has exhibited her paintings and prints in Minnesota, Chicago, New York City, Michigan, Memphis, Washington D.C., California, Paris, and Rome. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Halle Ford Museum of Art, Stanford University, Valparaiso University Museum of Art, Steensland Art Museum, Harry and Margaret Anderson Collection of Art, Healthmarc, Inc., Minnetonka Corporation, Piper Jaffray and Hopwood, Central Lakes Colleges, Winthrop and Weinstein, and Coca Cola, Inc. She has received two grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, in addition a Pew Grant to study and paint in Italy, and residencies at the American Academy in Rome and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Finally, the Jerome Foundation and Arts Midwest/ National Endowment for the Arts have extended support for her work. Since 1985 she has taught regularly in the Art Department at St. Olaf College.

This timely and remarkable book, the collaborative work of a leading philosopher of religion and a distinguished contemporary artist, explores and defends the aboriginal bond between aesthetics and theology with great power, verve and ingenuity.

• Acknowledgments / Introduction / 1. The Turning Image / 2. The Aesthetics of Inquiry / 3. The Cosmic Question and the Emergence: The Trick / 4. Seeing Into Other Minds / 5. The Problem of Theism: Evil / 6. The Fitting Imagination / Bibliography / Index