A Difference in Imagination

As I finished up the PCA's ad interim committee's report on the Federal Vision, etc., I could not help but think of how it seems to be missing a fundamental, philosophical assumption of FV. But then I thought, "No, philosophical assumption is not quite right. It's something perhaps more basic." Then I found this from Peter Leithart's blog. There is a fundamental difference in how each group sees the world: that is, there's a fundamental difference in imagination. That's what I was looking for: imagination. From Leihart's post:

One of the differences between those associated with "Federal Vision" theology and those opposed to it is a difference of theological imagination. The opponents operate with a theological imagination that distinguishes and clarifies; ontology is distinguished from relationality, nature from supernature, ecclesiology from soteriology.

Leithart goes on to describe what he calls the perichoretic imagination that one tends to find among the proponents of FV. Perichoresis was an ancient Christian way of attempting to describe the relationship of the three persons of the Trinity. Read more about perichoresis here and here.