In the course of a career that combined scholarship with ordained ministry, David Jasper has influenced, inspired, challenged and encouraged many students and colleagues. In The End of the Church?, fourteen scholars capture some of David Jasper's energy in contributions that signal continuing development and exploration.

The End of the Church? seeks to indicate the ambiguity and creative tension in Jasper's relationship with the institution he has served as a priest and as a theologian. On the one hand, he has lamented its institutional myopia; on the other hand, he has loved its capacity (even if this is often submerged) to express something of the beauty, truth and mystery of God.

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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1. Boundaries and Creativity: The Church and Art
Chapter 2. Light in the Darkness of the Heart
Chapter 3. Rubble and Dust: A Sacrament of Ruins in Art and Theology
Chapter 4. Abdiel—Or the Faithful Found in Paradise Lost
Chapter 5. “The Taste of Things Inconceivable”: Spark, Proust and The Sacramental Way
Chapter 6. Poets, Professors and Priests: Reflections on Poetic and Pedagogic Vocation in the Work of Seamus Heaney and David Jasper
Chapter 7. The End of the Church
Chapter 8. The End of Church? An Experiment in Beauty Refracted
Chapter 9. Imaginary Homelands’ Legends and Ghosts
Chapter 10. David, George and David: Theologians Artfully Changing Theology
Chapter 11. Ups and Downs of Nineteenth-Century Theology: Issues Theological, Literary and Poetic
Chapter 12. Truth or Meaning: Revelation in the Desert—Redel’s Sermon on Exodus 19
Chapter 13. On the Power of Writing
Chapter 14. Liturgy and the Buried Giant
List of David Jasper’s Publications

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