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Charles Taylor and Anglican theology : aesthetic ecclesiology / J.A. Franklin.

9783030821067 (electronic bk.)
3030821064 (electronic bk.)
9783030821050
3030821056

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-82106-7 doi

BX5131.3 .F73 2021

230/.3

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 Taylors 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 Churchs 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. J.A. Franklin is a priest in the Church of England. He trained for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon, and holds a masters degree in theology and biblical studies from Kings College London and a doctorate in systematic theology from the University of Oxford, UK

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