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List of contents
Introduction: Perspectives on Pusey
Chapter 1
Pusey Reinterpreted
Chapter 2
Patristic Hermeneutics and the Sacramental Vision
Chapter 3
Baptism and Union with Christ
Chapter 4
Communion and the Real Presence
Chapter 5
Sacrifice and the Atonement
Chapter 6
Sacrifice and the Sacraments
Conclusion: Reclaiming Pusey for Theology
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Tobias A. Karlowicz is an Anglican Priest who has served several parishes in central Illinois, USA. He holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews, UK.
Summary
Offering a decisive challenge to the older reception of Pusey as a paragon of backwards scholarship, Tobias A. Karlowicz argues that Pusey is properly understood as a penetrating and original theologian whose work anticipated contemporary conversations about the nature of theology, and a pivotal figure in the history of Anglican theology. Karlowicz locates the heart of Pusey’s project in a theological perception which looks through the physicality and concreteness of language, to discern Christ at the centre of both Scripture and the physical creation. This ‘sacramental vision,’ which grew from Pusey’s critique of Christianity’s decay and his formative engagement with patristic hermeneutics and ontology, forms his teaching on the sacraments as vehicles for a Christian life of eucharistic self-oblation in union with Christ, and demonstrates the relevance of his thought to contemporary theology.
Foreword
A comprehensive exposition of Pusey’s thought which demonstrates his ongoing relevance to theology.
Additional text
In this original and nuanced theological study, Karlowicz overturns the caricature image of Pusey the grim ascetic. He persuasively challenges the view that Pusey retreated from an early liberalism into reactionary clerical obscurantism. He develops the contrary view, adopted by some current scholars, of an essential underlying continuity in Pusey’s thought. He reveals a Pusey fired by a sacramental vision of union with Christ, rooted in the Fathers and with striking affinities to 20th century French nouvelle theologie and early 21st century Radical Orthodoxy.
