{"product_id":"heavenly-participation-the-weaving-of-a-sacramental-tapestry-9780802865427","title":"Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry","description":"Surveying 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 \u003ci\u003eotherworldly\u003c\/i\u003e, much more concerned with heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHeavenly Participation\u003c\/i\u003e Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds ancient and modern -- Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoersma, Hans:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHans Boersma\u003c\/b\u003e is the Saint Benedict Servants of Christ Chair in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Wisconsin. His other books include \u003ci\u003eHeavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642318229778,"sku":"9780802865427","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3889a287-8a8e-4e37-b858-bad3f03d25f3.jpg?v=1733064097","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/heavenly-participation-the-weaving-of-a-sacramental-tapestry-9780802865427","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}