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Heavenly participation, the weaving of a sacramental tapestry, Hans Boersma

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Heavenly participation, the weaving of a sacramental tapestry, Hans Boersma

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eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Heavenly participation

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Hans Boersma

Sub title

the weaving of a sacramental tapestry

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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