BET Archive | Volume 3 – Essays on Liturgy, Worship, and Spiritual Formation
Title
The Way Up is Down: Charles Taylor, John Calvin, and Sacramental Worship in a ‘Secular Age'
Joseph Sherrard
Abstract (from the Editorial of BET vol. 3.1)
Joseph Sherrard (Second Fellowship) engages one of Smith’s interlocutors, Charles Taylor, challenging the criticisms of John Calvin in Taylor’s account of the secular turn. Sherrard expounds Calvin’s Eucharistic theology, connected as it is to his Christology and his theology of worship, to argue that Calvin offers a thorough and nuanced account of materiality, albeit one that challenges “sacramental” understandings of reality by fixing attention on God’s covenant promises. These promises are mediated through material reality, but find their locus in the ascended Christ.
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Joey Sherrard is Associate Pastor of Discipleship at Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church in Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, UK. Joey is a member of the St. John Fellowship of the Center For Pastor Theologians.
