Fundamental Good of Images and Passions

"Given the embodied structure of the human person, images (and imagination) play an essential role in human knowing and thus contribute to knowledge rather than deceive us. If images can be icons, and the imagination is a structural aspect of creaturehood, then the passions – as structural – can also be affirmed as fundamentally good, even if their direction can be distorted."
James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, P. 229