Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry Powered by dazzling prose and

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the seemingly unshakable faith of thousands of followers

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and the widely praised memoir

Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry Powered by dazzling prose andSurveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven, Hans Boersma issues a wake up call for Western Christianity. Both Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a sacramental mindset, focusing more on the "here and now" than on the "then and there." Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and St. Augustine indeed, of most of Scripture