Analysis Of The Economy Of Grace By Kathryn Tanner

Introduction In her presentation of theological economy, namely, the economy of grace, Kathryn Tanner investigates the practical implications of her incarnational dogmatic enterprise. I concur with Tanner’s claim of the urgent need of an economy of grace as I take into account the ever-growing gap of wealth between the rich and the poor as well as the Global North and the Global South. Furthermore, as George Harvey rightly diagnoses, it seems to be the unbridled desire for private possession in the capitalist market that resulted in the housing bubble, which eventually “destroyed the capacity for many to acquire and sustain their access to housing use values.” (George Harvey, 21). To top it all, the housing market crash triggered a global crisis. Nevertheless, ironically, while the economic life of commoners and small businesses suffer, many corporate companies and major financing companies are enjoying the joy ride of increasing profits (The Price of Inequality, 469-70). Above all, Tanner’s economy of grace is strongly invited in the current global capitalist market in that her suggestion addresses the problem of people’s alienation in the market that operates under the rubric of profit maximization. However, I find the …show more content…
However, this is not the case! While endorsing Cyril’s concept of the hypostatic union of Christ, Tanner paradoxically abnegates Cyril’s theopaschitic position. Tanner takes an explicitly non-kenotic approach to the incarnation of Christ. That is, God does not give up or sacrifice anything of God’s own in the incarnation. The hypostatic union is the process of divinity’s perfection of humanity in the person of Christ without any self-sacrifice to the divine nature. For this reason, the reader of Tanner faces a paradox in her Christological