Dom Anscar Vonier, Abbot of Buckfast, was among England's greatest homilists and theologians in the early twentieth century. In "The Christian Mind," Abbot Vonier provides a close study of St. Paul's teachings on how the life of Christ in man begets a unique "attitude of man’s mind caused directly and totally by the Incarnation." Beginning with a concise and helpful breakdown of St. Paul's central arguments and metaphors for the doctrine of justification, Vonier explores the implications of Christian consciousness for the moral life, including an account of how human equality in Christ through grace, as opposed to secular notions of equality, offer a means to authentic social justice and worldly peace.
Dom Anscar Vonier, Abbot of Buckfast, was among England's greatest homilists and theologians in the early twentieth century. In "The Christian Mind," Abbot Vonier provides a close study of St. Paul's teachings on how the life of Christ in man begets a unique "attitude of man’s mind caused directly and totally by the Incarnation." Beginning with a concise and helpful breakdown of St. Paul's central arguments and metaphors for the doctrine of justification, Vonier explores the implications of Christian consciousness for the moral life, including an account of how human equality in Christ through grace, as opposed to secular notions of equality, offer a means to authentic social justice and worldly peace.