Classical apologetics operates with a very modern notion of reason; presuppositional apologetics, on the other hand, is postmodern (and Augustinian!) insofar as it recognizes the role of presuppositio...
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?
Unlike sermon-centric congregations that profess high views of Scripture but leave the reading of the Bible to the preacher’s whim and circumscribe it within sermon time, in catholic Christian worship...
Thus each household and family does well to take an audit of its daily routines, looking at them through a liturgical lens. What Story is carried in those rhythms? What vision of the good life is carr...
These are not naturally occurring phenomena; they are the fruit of culture, the products of human making. In blessing the bread and giving thanks for it, Jesus not only hallows the stuff of the earth,...
The secular3 age is a level playing field. We’re all trying to make sense of where we are, even why we are, and it’s not easy for any of us.
Taylor is not only interested in understanding how the secular emerged; he is also an acute observer of how we’re all secular now. The secular touches everything. It not only makes unbelief possible;...
Subtraction stories Accounts that explain the secular as merely the subtraction of religious belief, as if the secular is what’s left over after we subtract superstition. In contrast, Taylor emphasize...
Rather, the offering is an expression of gratitude. It is a symbolic but concrete indication that the commerce between God and humanity is not a contract but a covenant, which traffics not in commodit...
One of the functions of Revelation [or of worship] was to purge and to refurbish the Christian imagination. It tackles people’s imaginative response to the world, which is at least as deep and influen...
One could say of Augustine what Leslie Jamison notes about Don Gately in Infinite Jest: He’s no saint. That’s why he made salvation seem possible.
Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is incredulity toward metanarratives is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to recover (a) the narrative character of Christian faith,...
Indeed, the for a Christian Christ: Jesus Christ is the very embodiment of what we're made for, of the end to which we are called....and how does this happen? By being regularly immersed in the dram...
God can throw down nations and plant new ones with a few drops of water.
Formative Christian worship paints a picture of the beauty of the Lord--and a vision of the he desires for creation--in a way that captures our imagination....The biblical vision of --of a world wher...
First, with apologies for repeating the obvious, it is worth noting that the practice of Christian worship takes up and involves something mundane, common, and even dirty (as in filthy lucre): the nit...
Derrida. Deconstruction’s claim that there is nothing outside the text [il n’y a pas de hors-texte] can be considered a radical translation of the Reformation principle sola scrip-tura. In particular,...
Because our hearts are oriented primarily by desire, by what we love, and because those desires are shaped and molded by the habit-forming practices in which we participate, it is the rituals and prac...
Too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.5
So too we extend mutual greetings because God has welcomed us.