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With reference to both religious & secular utopias & paradise stories, David Boulton suggests that in a postmodern world that has abandoned absolutes & grand narratives, literary utopias still have the power to inspire & motivate when understood & interpreted as poetry before politics, & art before science. Inspirational rather than instrumental, utopias offer us 'enabling dreams,' picturing a better world of the imagination & motivating us to help build the New Jerusalem. 9 References. Adapted from the source document.

Are we called to be prophets or pragmatists? Voices crying in the wilderness, or whisperers in the corridors of power? Radicals in every generation have to face the question. Gerrard Winstanley, "True Leveller" leader & Christian communist, faced it in the English revolution of 1649. Was he a utopian prophet or an early practitioner of critical engagement?" He was sometimes one, sometimes the other, & often both at the same time. As such, he speaks to our postmodern condition, where pragmatism is the life of all.". Adapted from the source document.