A world-class historian of the Anglican/Episcopal churches and early Christian history offers an accessible guide as seen through the eyes of the New Testament, Augustine, poet John Donne, and others.
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A world-class historian of the Anglican/Episcopal churches and early Christian history offers an accessible guide as seen through the eyes of the New Testament, Augustine, poet John Donne, and others.
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New. Lest the Christian hope succumb to, as Nietzsche put it, ''the rainbow-bridge of concepts'' on which ''one must be very light, very subtle, very thin to step across, '' Rowan Greer sets out to ''raid the inarticulate'' (T.S. Eliot's words)--to locate hope's continuity and discontinuity with our present existence through the writings of Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, John Donne, and Jeremy Taylor. Why these writers? Greer hypothesizes that though we have entered a postcritical phase of Christian theology, our thinking can still be informed by the traditional approaches taken by these four in interpreting and living the New Testament promise of salvation. Two distinct sensibilities emerge. For Gregory of Nyssa and Jeremy Taylor, Christian hope is an eternal reality in which we participate now, though its fruition is solidly placed in the age to come. For Augustine and John Donne, the Christian life is anticipatory--a steady movement toward ultimate things gathered in ''a future beyond all futures. '' But Greer refuses to pick favorites. His thesis centers on the paradox that only the ''there and then'' can illuminate the ''here and now. '' Hope itself, as a reality, is fraught with difficulty. Hope calls us to ask questions that reveal our world in all its ambiguity, frailty and flux. It shows us both tragedy and the powerful energy of creativity. It has no easy conclusion, but ultimately it exhorts us (in Eliot's words again) to ''be still and still moving / Into another intensity / For a further union, a deeper communion...282 pp.
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