Theology, Imagination and the Arts
Hans Boersma (Ph.D. University of Utrecht) is the J. I. Packer Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C. Hans is the author of a number of books, most recently Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa: An Anagogical Approach (Oxford, 2013). He has also written Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry (Eerdmans, 2011); Nouvelle Théologie and Sacramental Ontology: A Return to Mystery (Oxford, 2009) and Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition (Baker Academic, 2004). He and his wife Linda (along with two of their five children) live in Langley, BC, where they are members of the Immanuel Christian Reformed Church.
Karl Barth’s position, articulated in the first volume of the Church Dogmatics, that the doctrine of analogy (analogia entis) is the invention of the…