This book considers the work of Charles Taylor from a theological
perspective, specifically relating to the topic of ecclesiology. It
argues that Taylor and related thinkers such as John Milbank and
Rowan Williams point towards an "Aesthetic Ecclesiology," an
ecclesiology that values highly and utilizes the aesthetic in its
self-understanding and practice. Jamie Franklin argues that
Taylor's work provides an account of the breakdown in Modernity of
the conceptual relationship of the immanent and the transcendent,
and that the work of John Milbank and radical orthodoxy give a
complementary account of the secular from a more metaphysical
angle. Franklin also incorporates the work of Rowan Williams, which
provides us a way of thinking about the Church that is rooted in a
material and historical legacy. The central argument is that the
reconnection of the transcendent and the immanent coheres with an
understanding of the Church that incorporates the material reality
of the sacraments, the importance of artistic beauty and
craftsmanship, and the Church's status as historical, global, and
eschatological. Secondly, the aesthetic provides the Church with a
powerful apologetic: beauty cannot be reduced to the
presuppositions of secular materialism, and so must be accounted
for by recourse to transcendent categories.
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