Jesus Imagination: Maker, Mender, Minder, Master
Synopsis
Imagination isn't a luxury. It's how Jesus changed the world.
In Jesus Imagination: Maker, Mender, Minder, Master, Leonard Sweet reveals Christ as the divine artisan whose way of seeing transfigured reality-and still can.
What if Jesus' most revolutionary act wasn't what he taught-but how he imagined?
Jesus healed bodies.
He forgave sins.
He defeated death.
But beneath it all was something even more radical: a holy imagination that redefined reality itself.
In Jesus Imagination: Maker, Mender, Minder, Master, Leonard Sweet explores Jesus as tekton-artisan, gardener, storyteller, and master of meaning. Jesus didn't flatten mystery; he deepened it. He didn't reduce faith to answers; he expanded it into wonder.
Drawing on Scripture, theology, semiotics, cognitive science, and cultural reflection, Sweet shows how Jesus used story like joinery, silence like sandpaper, hyperbole like a hammer, and love like fire. His imagination transformed:
mustard seeds into kingdoms
outsiders into family
scars into testimony
crosses into thrones
This is the tenth and final book in Sweet's acclaimed Jesus Decalogy-a culminating vision for following Jesus in an age of AI, automation, and spiritual numbness.
For disciples, creatives, pastors, and anyone longing for a faith that still breathes, Jesus Imagination is not just a book-it's an awakening.
Step into the divine workshop.
Let your imagination catch fire.
And learn to see the world the way Jesus did.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Salish Sea Press
- ISBN: 9781636130460
- Number of pages: 566
- Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 32 mm
- Languages: English
