Sacramental Vision of Edward Bouverie Pusey

Offering a decisive challenge to the older reception of Pusey as a paragon of backwards scholarship Tobias A. Karlowicz argues that Pusey is properly understood as a penetrating and original theologian whose work anticipated contemporary conversations about the nature of theology and a pivotal figure in the history of Anglican theology. Karlowicz locates the heart of Pusey's project in a theological perception which looks through the physicality and concreteness of language to discern Christ at the centre of both Scripture and the physical creation. This 'sacramental vision ' which grew from Pusey's critique of Christianity's decay and his formative engagement with patristic hermeneutics and ontology forms his teaching on the sacraments as vehicles for a Christian life of eucharistic self-oblation in union with Christ and demonstrates the relevance of his thought to contemporary theology.