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SEPTEMBER 2022 | DENVER CATHOLIC
R E ACQ U I R I N G A B I B L I C A L WO R L DV I E W
It was just a few books — a few stories — planted in his
childhood that took root in his imagination and led Strat-
ford Caldecott to become a lifelong follower of Jesus. That
was all it took. Those books laid a foundation for how
Caldecott saw the world: a place of adventure, of romance,
of villains, of suffering, of heroes. But a place filled with
people longing for something beyond themselves. To be
more. To be saved from our limitations and our wrongdo-
ings. To reach beyond the limitations of the temporal world
to something, someone, infinitely more beautiful and more
worthy. The stories of his childhood were stories, of course,
and some might categorize them as make-believe. But they
were, very much, true stories. Myths that bring us as read-
ers beyond ourselves to something true.
Caldecott's baptized imagination was formed through
truth to see the world in a particular way. Archbishop
Aquila has asked each one of us to reacquire a particular
way of seeing the world, to reacquire a Biblical worldview.
In the Bible, God gives us the ultimate story to form our
imaginations, our ways of seeing. When we ground our-
selves in the Bible, we begin to see the world the way God
wants us to see it — a place of adventure, of romance, of
villains, of suffering, of heroes, and ultimately saving.
In the Old Testament, God tells us that he created us
out of love, not out of his need. He created every single
