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The book explores those aspects of Donald MacKinnon's theological
writings which challenge the claim of the liberal Catholic
tradition in the Church of England to have forged an
ecclesiological consensus, namely that the Church is the extension
of the incarnation. MacKinnon destabilized this claim by exposing
the wide gulf between theory and practice in that church,
especially in his own Anglo-Catholic tradition within it. For him
the collapse of Christendom is the occasion for a dialectical
reconstruction of the relation of the Church to Jesus Christ and to
the world on the basis of the gospel. His basic claim is that
authentic ecclesial existence must correspond with what was
revealed and effected by Jesus along his way from Galilee to
Jerusalem to Galilee. Reflection on the Church thus takes the form
of a lived response shaped by a Christocentric grammar of faith:
the submission of the church to Jesus' contemporaneous
interrogation, a sustained attentiveness to him and the willing
embrace of his 'hour'.
Timothy Connor shows how Donald MacKinnon's extension concept of
kenosis to the doctrine of the Church offers a critical corrective
to ecclesiological triumphalism. This book explores those aspects
of Donald MacKinnon's theological writings which challenge the
claim of the liberal Catholic tradition in the Church of England to
have forged an ecclesiological consensus, namely that the Church is
the extension of the incarnation. MacKinnon destabilized this claim
by exposing the wide gulf between theory and practice in that
church, especially in his own Anglo-Catholic tradition within it.
For him the collapse of Christendom is the occasion for a
dialectical reconstruction of the relation of the Church to Jesus
Christ and to the world on the basis of the gospel. His basic claim
is that authentic ecclesial existence must correspond with what was
revealed and effected by Jesus along his way from Galilee to
Jerusalem to Galilee. Reflection on the Church thus takes the form
of a lived response shaped by a Christocentric grammar of faith:
the submission of the church to Jesus' contemporaneous
interrogation, a sustained attentiveness to him and the willing
embrace of his 'hour'. "T&T Clark Studies in Systematic
Theology" is a series of monographs in the field of Christian
doctrine, with a particular focus on constructive engagement with
major topics through historical analysis or contemporary
restatement.
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