Premium
The Church in the State We’re In
Author(s) -
Lash Nicholas
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0025.00034
Subject(s) - ignorance , state (computer science) , identity (music) , philosophy , fidelity , forgiveness , religious studies , nationalism , theology , sociology , aesthetics , law , epistemology , political science , algorithm , computer science , electrical engineering , engineering , politics
The state (more specifically, the British state) is in a crisis it seemingly cannot recognize. But the issue is not one of “Church and State” or even modern “religion”. The issue is the Church’s fidelity to its vocation to narrate, announce, and dramatize the identity of humankind as communion in God. Newman’s refraction of Christ’s threefold office provides a framework for the Church’s identity and vocation. The Church is a school of priestly forgiveness, offering resistance to nationalism, and prophetic thought against the anti‐intellectualism of the merely devout as well as the patronizing ignorance of the irreligious.