Hallowed Be Thy Name: The Sanctification of All in the Soteriology of P. T. Forsyth (T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology, 20)

Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology offers a new understanding of the materiality of religion. By drawing on the field of archaeological theory and method, the relationship between religion and material culture is explored. It is argued that the material elements of religious life have been largely neglected by the discipline of religious studies, while at the same time religion has been traditionally seen as problematic for archaeologists. Why do we not talk of the discipline of the archaeology of religion, in the same way we do the anthropology of religion, or the sociology of religion? The volume considers the historical problems of approaching the material elements of religious life and bridges the methodological gap between religious studies and archaeology by proposing a new way of understanding the materiality of religion - as active, engaged and projecting a level of autonomous social agency. Finally, the critical examination of archaeological approaches to the materiality of religion is furthered through the consideration of non-archaeological ways of examining the social roles that material culture plays in human life. This Book Fills A Noticeable Gap In Forsyth Studies. It Provides Readers Interested In The Thought Of Forsyth With A Way Of Reading And Critiquing His Corpus, And That In A Way That Takes Due Account Of, And Elucidates, The Theological, Philosophical And Historical Locale Of His Thought. Goroncy Explores Whether The Notion Of ‘hallowing' Provides A Profitable Lens Through Which To Read And Evaluate Forsyth's Soteriology. He Suggests That The Hallowing Of God's Name Is, For Forsyth, The Way Whereby God Both Justifies Himself And Claims Creation For Divine Service. This Book Proposes That Reading Forsyth's Corpus As Essentially An Exposition Of The First Petition Of The Lord's Prayer Is An Invitation To Better Comprehend Not Only His Soteriology But Also, By Extension, His Broader Theological Vision And Interests. Coming Into Focus : Finding Lenses ; Serviceableness And Circumscription ; Past Receptions ; Forsyth As 'theologian Of The Cross' : Per Crucem Ad Lucem -- The Moral Is The Real : Location, Landscape, Appropriation ; Location ; Landscape ; Appropriation -- Thy Kingdom Come. Thy Will Be Done, On Earth As It Is In Heaven ; 'thy Kingdom Come' ; Holiness Incarnate ; Christ The Hallower ; Christ As Obedient : 'to Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice' ; The Cruciality Of The Cross : The Self-recovery Of Holiness -- Hallowed Be They Name : Holiness' Self-recovery In The Human Conscience ; Recovering Forsyth's Vision Of Humanity ; Forsyth On The Human Conscience : Moral Centre, Consanguinity And Sphere Of Redemption ; Forsyth On The 'new' Conscience - The Conquering And Sanctification Of Humanity's Moral Centre -- Thine Is The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory. Amen ; For The Sins Of The World : 'so That By The Grace Of God He Might Taste Death For Everyone' ; Revising Election ; Pareschatology And The Hope Of Hallowed Life ; Soteriological Universalism Qualified ; Problems With Forsyth's Qualifications ; The Self-realization, Or The Frustration, Of Holiness? ; Amen - Holiness, 'the Last Reality' -- By Way Of Conclusion : Heaven's Laughter. By Jason Goroncy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [245]-278) And Index.