Overview
- Offers a novel engagement of Charles Taylor from the perspective of Anglicanism
- Presents an innovative account of the aesthetic as significant for Anglican theology
- Illustrates how the realms of nature and grace have been illegitimately sundered in Modernity
Part of the book series: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue (PEID)
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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 Taylor’s 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 realityof the sacraments, the importance of artistic beauty and craftsmanship, and the Church’s 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.
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Book Title: Charles Taylor and Anglican Theology
Book Subtitle: Aesthetic Ecclesiology
Authors: J. A. Franklin
Series Title: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82106-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82105-0Published: 22 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82108-1Published: 23 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82106-7Published: 21 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6591
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6605
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 222
Topics: Christian Theology, Political Philosophy