Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 258
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-9787-1578-3 • Hardback • October 2023 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-9787-1579-0 • eBook • September 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
J. W. Olson is departmental lecturer in Historical and Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford, based at Oriel and Trinity colleges.
Chapter 1. Revelation Revisited
Chapter 2. Understanding
Chapter 3. Language
Chapter 4. Personhood
Chapter 5. Eucharist as Revelation
Chapter 6. Eucharist as Hermeneutic
For many Christians, the Eucharist provides a defining focus of their lives and, many would say, offers a direct and embodied experience of the living Christ. That much is simple. Attempting to show how this account is not just defensible but also inspiring is, in a secular and pluralist age that denies appeal to any transcendent reality, to embark on an intellectual obstacle course of endless challenges—doctrinal, philosophical, and experiential. In Taste and See, J. W. Olson confronts these challenges head on, engaging sources as varied as Heidegger and Dom Gregory Dix to provide a lucid, lively, and humanly as well as theologically persuasive argument that is essential reading to all those seeking a deeper understanding of their lived sacramental experience.
— George Pattison, University of Glasgow