First of Its Kind: Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ: A Study in the Functioning of a Moral Theology

ISBN-13: 9781853110832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.

Henry R. McAdoo

Opis

The Great Exemplar was the first Life of Christ in English. It was an innovation also in being the first combination of a Life of Christ and an Imitation of Christ as a book of practical devotion.Furthermore, it is Jeremy Taylors first assay in the reintegrated and restructured Anglican moral/ascetical theology in which he came to be one of the subjects leading exponents and practitioners.Here, in First of its Kind: Jeremy Taylors Life of Christ, the author demonstrates how this renewed Anglican moral theology anticipated most of the major reforms in moral theology which have come about since the middle of the twentieth century. Taken together with the authors The Eucharistic Theology of Jeremy Taylor Today (1988) this book provides a theological portrait of one of the greatest of Anglicans.In The Great Exemplar Taylors robust, unapologetic Anglicanism, Christ-centred, Spirit-conscious and eirenic in outreach, is the setting for his practical and devotional picture of the Christian vocation.