Series Index Principles of Christian Theology by John Macquarrie John Macquarrie’s Principles of Christian Theology does not have a conclusion in any formal sense; instead he ends the book with an exploration of Christian ethics in the existentialist framework that he’s set up through the first twenty chapters. Here even more than before Macquarrie’s commitment…
Series Index Principles of Christian Theology by John Macquarrie In retrospect, I should have anticipated that a theology that self-identifies as existentialist would be stronger in terms of the Christian life than on the contours of Christian confession. When John Macquarrie deals with the Bible, with the person and work of Jesus, with the Holy…
Series Index Principles of Christian Theology by John Macquarrie Operation Spirit Having run through a theology of Christ and Christ’s work, Macquarrie turns to the Spirit in chapter 14. Since he’s talked about the Father as the ineffable God and the Son as the expressive God, Macquarrie writes of the Spirit as Being drawing out…
Series Index John Macquarrie, Principles of Christian Theology Being(s) Created When Principles of Christian Theology turns its attention to creation, the book’s earlier distinctions between categories really start to bear fruit. Macquarrie’s earlier insistence that God does not name a being among beings but a sense that Being, that which lets-be, has a holiness to…
Series Index Principles of Christian Theology, Second Edition Macquarrie, having dealt with some of the linguistic concerns that arise when one speaks and writes about God, now turns to the constellation of phenomena called “religion” and “religions.” Oddly enough, after a long meditation on the history and systems that allow languages to make sense, this…
Series Index Principles of Christian Theology, Second Edition Now that we’ve got a descriptive account of human existence in place, we’ve got the basics of how human beings, as beings in the world, come to relate to different sorts of realities, be they ready-to-hand equipment for the things we do day to day; realities that…
Series Index Principles of Christian Theology, Second Edition I imagine many English-reading philosophy students know John Macquarrie as the translator of Heidegger’s Being and Time. I first came to know his work as Michial Farmer and I read through Heidegger together in the spring of 2009, the semester before we began The Christian Humanist Podcast. …