The End of the Church?
Conversations with the Work of David Jasper
Published on 1. December 2022
284 pages
978-1-78959-254-2 (ISBN)
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In the course of a career that combined scholarship with ordained ministry, David Jasper has influenced, inspired, challenged and encouraged many students and colleagues. In The End of the Church?, fourteen scholars capture some of David Jasper's energy in contributions that signal continuing development and exploration.
The End of the Church? seeks to indicate the ambiguity and creative tension in Jasper's relationship with the institution he has served as a priest and as a theologian. On the one hand, he has lamented its institutional myopia; on the other hand, he has loved its capacity (even if this is often submerged) to express something of the beauty, truth and mystery of God.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham
United Kingdom
File size
3,01 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78959-254-2 (9781789592542)
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Conversations with the Work of David Jasper
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Content
- Intro
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Boundaries and Creativity: The Church and Art
- Introduction
- Boundaries
- Walter Hussey (and Benjamin Britten)
- Art at the boundary: Rejoice in the Lamb
- Beyond Rejoice in the Lamb
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Light in the Darkness of the Heart
- Black and white aspects of the truth
- Edouard Manet (1832-83)-Olympia
- El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópolous, 1541-1614)-The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
- Henri Matisse (1869-1954)-Porte-Fenêtre à Collioure
- Robert Motherwell (1915-91)-Elegy to the Spanish Republic 34
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Rubble and Dust: A Sacrament of Ruins in Art and Theology
- Prologue
- Betraying
- The God Studio
- Art in church
- Postscript
- Chapter 4. Abdiel-Or the Faithful Found in Paradise Lost
- Satan's reaction to the elevation and the anointing of the Son
- Satan's first speech
- Abdiel's appearance and his first speech
- Satan's reply
- Theological excursus 1: Abdiel the "Confessor"
- Abdiel the prophet-Abdias?
- The "faithful found" and free will fulfilled: Abdiel as example of steadfast faith
- Abdiel as type of the "one faithful" (Enoch, Noah, Moses, Phineas, Elijah, Jesus)
- Abdiel as a prefiguration of Jesus's "standing" in Paradise Regained
- Theological excursus 2: Abdiel's parrhesia and deontologist ethics
- Conclusion-Abdiel's lasting imprint on the reader's heart
- Chapter 5. "The Taste of Things Inconceivable": Spark, Proust and The Sacramental Way
- Chapter 6. Poets, Professors and Priests: Reflections on Poetic and Pedagogic Vocation in the Work of Seamus Heaney and David Jasper
- Chapter 7. The End of the Church
- Chapter 8. The End of Church? An Experiment in Beauty Refracted
- Beauty
- Justice and inclusion
- Hospitality
- Community
- Chapter 9. Imaginary Homelands' Legends and Ghosts
- Imaginary Homelands: A reprise
- Unholy ghosts and fixity's fury
- My vigilante Jesus
- Cancel thy neighbour
- An eschatological hope
- Chapter 10. David, George and David: Theologians Artfully Changing Theology
- DWB and opening up theology
- DWB and the indispensability of the artistic imagination
- DWB-back to Scotland
- GLP: From Edinburgh to parish scholar
- GLP: Artistic insight forged in parish and university
- GLP: the vision deepened by Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky
- A third "radical conservative"
- Developments in Durham
- Launching his Centre
- From Durham to Glasgow
- The interplay of English and Theology
- A brief reflective conclusion
- Chapter 11. Ups and Downs of Nineteenth-Century Theology: Issues Theological, Literary and Poetic
- Chapter 12. Truth or Meaning: Revelation in the Desert-Redel's Sermon on Exodus 19
- By means of introduction
- Translator's introduction
- Editor's note
- Chapter 13. On the Power of Writing
- The functions of writing
- A visit to the Ruthwell Cross
- Evoking the past
- Cracking the code
- Chapter 14. Liturgy and the Buried Giant
- Memory, liturgy and righteousness
- Communities of memory
- Memory and reconciliation
- Dangerous memory
- The Buried Giant, liturgy, and Christian destiny
- List of David Jasper's Publications
- Authored books
- Joint author
- Editor
- Contributions to books
- Refereed articles in journals
- Scottish Episcopal Church Contributions
- The Doctrine Committee under David's second Convenorship also produced two books:
