Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected
between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven,
Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both
Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a
sacramental mindset, focusing more on the here-and-now than on the
then-and-there. Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus,
Paul, and St. Augustine indeed, of most of Scripture and the church
fathers is profoundly otherworldly, much more concerned with
heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. In Heavenly
Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds
ancient and modern Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. Lewis, Henri
de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others. He urges Catholics and
evangelicals alike to retrieve a sacramental worldview, to
cultivate a greater awareness of eternal mysteries, to partake
eagerly of the divine life that transcends and transforms all
earthly realities. Hans Boersma makes a superb contribution to
evangelical theological reflection in this well-designed book, and
it goes a long way to drawing us back from the brink of a
fashionable evangelical tendency to reductive historicism. His
re-situation of the doctrine of the Incarnation in its historic
sacramental language and thought opens up the way to a deeper
understanding of the truths of faith that evangelicals and
Catholics alike seek to comprehend and nurture. David Lyle Jeffrey
Baylor University Theology at its best, says Hans Boersma, is less
interested in comprehending the truth than in participating in it.
Skillfully marshalling passages from the church fathers and
medieval theologians and drawing judiciously on contemporary
evangelical and Catholic thinkers, Boersma shows that theology is
not primarily an intellectual enterprise but a spiritual discipline
by which one enters into the truth and is mastered by it. Though
this sacramental tapestry, ' as he calls it, is as old as the
church, it is refreshing to have it presented anew in this engaging
book. Robert Louis Wilken University of Virginia
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