It's not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly express these (cognitive) beliefs; rather, we begin with worship, and articulated beliefs bubble...
Every political theology is exorcising demons—the question is which demons.
We learn to love, then, not primarily by acquiring information about what we should love but rather through practices that form the habits of how we love.
Too much of our cultural analysis is rooted in thinking-thingism: we scan culture, listening for messages, bent on rooting out false teachings. But if we are first and foremost lovers, and if our acti...
Second, the shared recitation of the Creed constitutes us as a historical people.
Instead, Taylor is concerned with the conditions of belief — a shift in the plausibility conditions that make something believable or unbelievable.
The distorted understanding of worldview that dominates current models assumes a rationalist, intellectualist, cognitivist model of the human person; as a result, it fails to honor the fact that we ar...
The Creator in whom we find our rest is only all too eager to welcome us into communion.
So we have a twofold challenge to the social task of forging life in common: the deep, confessional diversity that shapes how we think about a life well lived and the norms for a good society; and the...
Second, singing is a mode of expression that seems to reside in our imagination more than other forms of discourse.
Our essential embodiment will keep interrupting our Platonic desire to do away with the body, will keep insinuating itself into our dualistic discourses to remind us that the triune God of creation tr...
Jennings cites Jean-François Lyotard: Contemporary society no longer speaks of fraternity at all, whether Christian or republican. It only speaks of the sharing of the wealth and benefits of ‘developm...
It is because we are God’s ambassadors and image bearers, charged with caring for creation, that we bring to him the concerns of creation, praying for each other, for the church, and for the world at...
Instead of the bottom-up emphasis on worship as our expression of devotion and praise, historic Christian worship is rooted in the conviction that God is the primary actor or agent in the worship enco...
In the action of gathering, there is a visceral training of our imagination that shapes how we subsequently think about our identity and our calling as human, in relation to God and in relation to oth...
In other words, codes are inadequate as moral sources precisely because they do not touch on the dynamics of moral motivation.
Habitus, then, is a kind of compatibilism. As a social being acting in the world, I’m not an unconstrained free creature without inertia; neither am I the passive victim of external causes and determi...
Foucault. The seemingly disturbing, even Nietzschean claim that power is knowledge should push us to realize what MTV learned long ago: (a) the cultural power of formation and discipline, and hence (b...
What we sing says something significant about who we are—and whose we are.
We are witnessing to the fact that God’s action in the cross and resurrection has made it possible for humanity to be human, to take up their creational vocation