Background
MACQUARRIE, John was born on June 27, 1919 in Renfrew, Scotland. Son of John Macquarrie and Robina Macquarrie (nee Mclnnes).
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In this masterful historical survey, theologian John Macquarrie demonstrates how Christians, especially the great mystics, have experienced at their own "radiant core" the love and presence of God. The word mysticism evokes ecstatic visions, asceticism, and esoteric teaching. Yet, the author maintains, mystics are better thought of as people who exhibit common human curiosity, long to explore religious mystery, and ultimately find a deep personal relationship with God. Macquarrie discusses in detail the ten common traits of mysticism before tracing two millennia of Christian mysticism. He mainly allows the mystics to speak for themselves, but he is also particularly insightful about the greatest individuals of the tradition - from Paul to the patristic Platonists to the classic medieval mystics to a host of twentieth-century exemplars.
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In this long-awaited book, John Macquarrie turns to one of the few areas of Christian theology to which he has not yet devoted systematic attentionthat of christology.
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priest and professor of theology
MACQUARRIE, John was born on June 27, 1919 in Renfrew, Scotland. Son of John Macquarrie and Robina Macquarrie (nee Mclnnes).
Master of Arts, University Glasgow, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, University Glasgow, 1954. Doctor of Literature, University Glasgow, 1964.
Doctor of Divinity, University Oxford, England, 1981. S.T.D. (honorary), University of South, Tennessee, 1967. S.T.D. (honorary), General Theological Seminary, New York City, 1968.
Honorary Doctor of Divinity, University Glasgow, 1969. Honorary Doctor of Divinity, University Dayton, 1995.
Lecturer in Systematic Theology, University of Glasgow 1953-1962. Professor, of Systematic Theology, LTnion Theological Seminary, New York, United States of America 1962-1970. Honorary Curate, Saint Mary"s, Manhattanville, New York 1965-1970.
Lady Margaret Professor, of Divinity, Oxford University and Canon of Christ Church Oxford 1970-1986.
Gifford Lecturer, University of Saint Andrews 1983-1984. Consultant, Lambeth Conferences 1968, 1978.
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Whereas some theologians early reach a position recognizably theirs, which they proceed to elaborate and defend for the rest of their days, Macquarrie’s intellectual progress has followed his developing religious experience, and this to an unusual degree. Second thoughts have led him not so much to repudiate earlier views, as to balance them with further considerations. In his autobiographical memoir, significantly entitled ‘Pilgrimage in theology’, he recounts his passage from commitment to F. H. Bradley's suprarational absolute, which ‘cohered rather well with my own somewhat pantheistic religiosity’ via Bultmann. from whom he learned the significance of God’s mighty acts, and Heidegger, who taught him the importance, over against pure existentialism, of ontology, to a more orthodox Christian position, in which key influences were Knox and Rahner, and dismay at the reductionist tendencies of the so-called secular theology of the 1960s, of which his God and Secularity (1967) is a rebuttal. His increasing concern for the centralities of the Christian faith followed his departure from a Presbyterianism perceived as Word-bound to an Anglicanism deemed more catholic, and manifested itself in a panentheism couched in •ncarnational terms. His studies in quest of humanity and of deity prompted his more positive appreciation of natural theology, and led him towards a Christology: Jesus Christ in Modern Thought (1990).
Macquarrie has done much to introduce Bultmann and Heidegger to British readers, and his ability to master vast amounts of material and to present his findings clearly and fairly is shown to good effect in his Twentieth Century Religious Thought (1963), as well as in his numerous contributions to dictionaries. With his feet in both philosophical and theological soil he has been ideally eq uipped for the role of frontiersman, as is exemplified in his God-Talk (1967), in which he responds to the challenge of linguistic analysis. His practical interest emerges in, for example, Three Issues in Ethics (1970). He has also written on more strictly doctrinal and on ecumenical themes.
Macquarrie has not been led significantly to revise his opinion of student days that Calvin and Barth are ‘specially intolerable’. Those who perceive this as a lamentable lacuna have been prevented from according him unmixed praise. Their hesitation is not unrelated to the more general complaint that Macquarrie’s definition of theology as ‘reflection upon a religious faith’ is inadequate, for it wrongly makes religious experience the subject matter of theology. However, it is as impossible as it would be foolhardy to predict the final intellectual destination of a theologian whose life and works have so clearly borne witness to his own conviction that human selfhood is ever developing.
Captain British Army, 1945-1948. Member British Academy.
Hill w’alking, the language and literature of Scottish Gaelic.
F. H. Bradley, Ian Henderson, RBultmann. M. Heidegger, P. Tillich, K. Rahnet and John Knox (New Testament scholar).
Married Jenny Fallow Welsh, January 17, 1949. Children: John Michael, Catherine Elizabeth, Alan Denis.