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.
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..
Lewis, Henri de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others.
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In Heavenly Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds ancient and modern -- Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C.
Augustine -- indeed, of most of Scripture and the church fathers -- is profoundly otherworldly , much more concerned with Heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment.
Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and St.
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.
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
