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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © 2015 Anglican Theological Review Corporation
- ISSN
- 0003-3286
- eISSN
- 2163-6214
- DOI
- 10.1177/000332861509700132
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
ATR/97.1 170 Anglican Theological Review The Interruptive Word: Eberhard Jüngel on the Sacramental Struc- ture of God’s Relation to the World. By R. David Nelson. T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013. 256 pp. $29.95 (paper). R. David Nelson’s The Interruptive Word makes contributions to ongo- ing conversations concerning both sacramentology in general and the work of Eberhard Jüngel in particular. In this text Nelson addresses an apparent lacuna in the field of Jüngel research, namely the theology of sacrament (p. 1), while providing interesting insight into the problem of sacrament. In part 1 Nelson explicates Jüngel’s significant claim that “God comes to the world by coming-to-speech” (p. 11). He suggests God comes to speech through the event of the addressing word, interrupting the Cartesian self- correspondence of the ego which seeks self-actualization in its worldly situa- tion. Through the interruptive word, the human is drawn out of self-centered existence (incurvatus in se), resulting in an ecstatic relation to self, God, and the other. In this manner God’s addressing word is understood as God’s sac- ramental presence to the human, yet as the presence of one who is absent. Nelson subsequently turns attention to
Journal
Anglican Theological Review – SAGE
Published: Aug 16, 2021