Abstract
The basic characteristic of Christian faith is its anchoring in Trinitarian dogma, which is the ground of understanding the created universe as a unity in diversity and diversity in unity. Thanks to this, Christians are able to get a complex view of the world in all its varieties.
The paper aims to show that this bipolar paradox is the basic principle of Christian imagination. This kind of imagination lies in the background of each Christian testimony to the outer world.
Christian faith is not reductive, but it involves the wholeness of created world. The character of Christian imagination has been described in the work of C.
S. Lewis.
On this basis, we can notice that Christian imagination is christocentric and Christ's cross is its principal symbol. Vertical level of the cross symbolizes the relation between the heaven and the earth, between high and low imagination or, in other words, between myth and reality.
Horizontal level symbolizes the diversity of creation and all possible views on it. Last but not least, Jesus Christ on the cross is the full revelation of God.
Following Christ, one should not conceive his or her life as the expression of himself or herself but rather as the imitation of the Creator. Keywords: C.
S. Lewis; Imagination; Art and Theology; Fundamental