text: Everyone has both ways of imagining to some extent, but Protestant classics tend more toward the dialectical, Catholic classics to the analogical. The reliance on the Word as written in Scripture is not better or worse than relying on the Word present in the person proclaiming the Scripture.
  
  Converts, coming from an environment domnated by the dialectical, tend to think of the Church in dialectical ways until they gain a broader appreciation of the analogical imagination. They look at AL and say “this conflicts with Mt 17, canon law 816.34.” A pure dialectical response. Someone who thinks mre in terms of story says “Peter walked on water with the Lord, and Jesus raised him up when he faltered. Can’t we offer a helping hand to a brother or sister who is struggling?”