Eric Mascall and the rise, fall and rise of ‘Christian sociology’, c.1935 – 1985
This article explores the social thought of E.L. Mascall, Anglican theologian and philosopher. The bewilderment of the 1930s and 1940s, Mascall believed, was at root a loss of a proper sense of the human person: dependent on the action of God for very existence, simultaneously bodily and spiritual,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2023
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International journal for the study of the Christian church
Year: 2023, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 188-205 |
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Christian Sociology
B Christology B Anglo-Catholicism B Church of England B social theology |
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| Summary: | This article explores the social thought of E.L. Mascall, Anglican theologian and philosopher. The bewilderment of the 1930s and 1940s, Mascall believed, was at root a loss of a proper sense of the human person: dependent on the action of God for very existence, simultaneously bodily and spiritual, a worker on earth yet a pilgrim towards glory. Human fulfilment was contingent on a right relation of humankind to God, and the subservience of society, economy and politics to human need. Mascall was rare among his contemporaries in continuing to write into the mid-1980s, and thus being able to reflect on the eclipse in the 1950s and 1960s of much of what he had advocated. I suggest that the waxing and waning of Mascall’s interventions mirrors the rise, eclipse and (finally) partial revival of a catholic understanding of society and the human person, often given the name of ‘Christian sociology’. |
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| ISSN: | 1747-0234 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for the study of the Christian church
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2186570 |