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Martin Thornton’s sacramental view of the natural world
This is an extended passage from Martin Thornton’s first book: Rural Synthesis: The Religious Basis for Rural Culture. The book was published in 1948. In this passage, you will note how he builds upon...
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Preview of “The Person of Jesus Christ” lecture series
This is an 18-minute audio excerpt of the forthcoming title from Akenside Press. The Person of Jesus Christ is a lecture-series by John Macquarrie from 1984. The entire lecture-series on contemporary...
View ArticleThe Person of Jesus Christ (Lecture 1 of 5) by John Macquarrie
LECTURE 1 “The State of Christology in the Present Age” Presiding Bishop John Allin introduces John Macquarrie to the House of Bishops’ gathering. In this first of five presentations over five days,...
View ArticleA Proposal to Revise the Divine Office
It is not sufficient to participate regularly in the Eucharist, with its unequal stress on individuality and formalism; rather we have to be eucharistic people. We have to live perpetually in the...
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John Macquarrie and panentheism, part 1
A former dean of Nashotah House, Robert Munday, has written a blog post that, in the course of stating his...
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Ascetical theology and Catholic imagination
When we speak “ascetically” in the Catholic sense as Martin Thornton did — against and beyond the Anglican ascetical writers of the early 20th century such as Evelyn Underhill, Oscar Hardman, Bede...
View ArticleThe Person of Jesus Christ (Lecture 2 of 5) by John Macquarrie
LECTURE 2 “The Historical Problem of Knowing Jesus” Macquarrie begins his inquiry into the Person of Jesus of Nazareth through an analysis of the fruits of historical, source criticism of the New...
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LECTURE 3 “Christology ‘From Below'” Macquarrie continues with a description of christology that is “anabatic,” which can be said to be theology about Jesus that is “from below” and “goes up” to the...
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LECTURE 4 “20th-Century Western Christology: Barth and Bultmann” This lecture begins with a comparison of the christologies of Karl Barth and Rudolph Bultmann, and concludes with a riveting...
View ArticleThe Person of Jesus Christ (Lecture 5 of 5) by John Macquarrie
LECTURE 5 “The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ” In his concluding lecture, John Macquarrie explores what is meant by the claim of uniqueness given to Jesus Christ by the Christian religion. How can we, who...
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“Prayer and Incarnation”
By Martin Thornton[1] Contemporary theology is in confusion: which is at least to start with a proposition that nobody is likely to dispute. It is neither my present task, nor is it within my...
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