Hans BoersmaVezi magazinul LibrisSurveying 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.
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.
