ABSTRACT
In Chapter 3, I have noted Macquarrie's shift to a more corporate approach, in which his early hesitations over Bultmann's individualism are given fuller expression in dialogue with John Knox's theology and in the context of their shared move into the Anglican Church. I have also noted the way in which this shift re-envisions the kerygmatic summons as a summons into a new corporate reality, which correspondingly recasts the notion of instrumentality in such a way as to address the completion of creation rather than simply the 'humanising' of the world. Chapter 4 forms a parallel chapter, not charting further sequential developments, but rather investigating the complementary strand of Macquarrie's concern with ontology and its development into his characteristic existential-ontological method. This strand is significant because it marks a new degree of attention to how theology must conduct itself as a discipline, not simply to how it is to communicate Christian faith in contemporary context.1
