ABSTRACT
John Macquarrie presents the unfolding of God's love through creation, incarnation, passion, and consummation. At times he describes this process of fulfillment in terms of entelechy as the highest completion of all things in the love of God. Macquarrie was a prolific writer who published some two dozen books. He sought to draw together existentialist philosophy and Christian theology. He states in Principles of Christian Theology: 'if we have consistently held throughout this book that theological thinking must be rooted in the existential dimension of faith. Macquarrie states in The Humility of God that creation was 'not so much an exercise of power as rather an exercise of love and generosity, an act of self-limitation and even of self-humiliation on the part of God. His love and generosity lead him to share existence with his creatures. Macquarrie explains in Principles of Christina Theology that Jesus 'manifests the essential activity of God on the human level' by his 'absolute self-giving'.
