Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Grace Through Nature, All 'Within' Church?

"Milbank’s theology of nature as always already graced tends toward a similar blurring of the orders of creation and redemption and therefore the group that constitutes humanity and the community that constitutes the ecclesia. Because the gift of grace seems to be immediately ‘lost and renewed’ (BR, 27) by God’s ‘immediate correction’ (BR, 42) – and because this seems to be a universal gift and renewal (BR, 169) – there seems to be a sense in which none of this “is exactly ‘outside’ the Church’ (BR, 121)."

James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, p. 258

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