Attractive proposals: An Appreciative Appraisal of Douglas Farrow’s Theological Negotiations

Abstract

Douglas Farrow’s Theological Negotiations is a muscular, reciprocally enriching set of explorations of neuralgic loci of perennial theological concern. Articulating his proposals with characteristic verve and navigating alertly through the tradition and its resources, Farrow has produced an impressive and wide-ranging work of systematic theology that is also an exemplar of Catholic ecumenical engagement. In chapters that take up the nature–grace dialectic in its epistemological, anthropological, doxological, sacramental, and soteriological keys, Farrow develops attractive proposals centered in the incarnation and ascension of the Word made flesh who is seated evermore at the Father’s right hand in glory. In this sense, Theological Negotiations presses forward and delivers upon the insights and promissory tenor of his earlier Ascension Theology.