Through his embedded experience in the Montgomery bus boycotts, Reverend King came to see the limits of Niebuhr’s abstract public theologizing. Abstractions cannot empower acts of compassion and sacri...
This is why Luther and Calvin still understood themselves to be catholics. While they might have been railing against the abuses of Roman Catholicism, they also understood themselves to be heirs of th...
This is not a book about Augustine. In a way, it’s a book Augustine has written about you. It’s a journey with Augustine as a journey into oneself. It’s a travelogue of the heart. It’s a road trip wit...
This dependence and lack of self-sufficiency is then often affirmed horizontally, as it were, by encouraging the congregation to greet one another, expressing welcome
This coupling of market forces and the crowd’s demand for publicity means that everyone dreams of monetizing their Instagram feed. And that effectively becomes the ethos of a society.
Third, the church’s music and songs constitute what Richard Mouw describes as a compacted theology.
There is a specter haunting our secular age, the spectre of meaninglessness (p. 717) — which is, in a sense, a dispatch from fullness. And because this won’t go away, but rather keeps pressing and pul...
The state does not take a merely temporal regulatory role and leave salvation in the hands of the church; rather, the modern state seeks to replace the church by itself becoming a soteriological insti...
The soul therefore needs three things: eyes which it can use aright, looking, and seeing.
The place we unconsciously strive toward is what ancient philosophers of habit called our telos—our goal, our end. But the telos we live toward is not something that we primarily know or believe or th...
The place we unconsciously strive toward is what ancient philosophers of habit called our
The liturgy is a hearts and minds strategy, a pedagogy that trains us as disciples precisely by putting our bodies through a regimen of repeated practices that get a hold of our heart and aim or love...
The core claim of this book is that liturgies[ 8]—whether sacred or secular—shape and constitute our identities by forming our most fundamental desires and our most basic attunement to the world. In s...
The core claim of this book is that liturgies8—whether sacred or secular—shape and constitute our identities by forming our most fundamental desires and our most basic attunement to the world. In shor...
The Supper is a gracious communion with a forgiving God; but it is also a supper we eat with one another, and that too will require forgiveness.
The Eucharist is our model of the eschatological order, a microcosm of the way things really ought to be.[105] Thus it is a normative meal: by showing us a foretaste of how things ought to be, the pra...
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;...
Our most revolutionary political act is to hope
One of the responsibilities of the pastor as political theologian, then, is to help the people of God read the festivals of their own polis, whether the annual militarized Thanksgiving festivals that...
Marsh goes on to observe: The boycott year had renewed the mission of the church. The boycott showed the world a church whose power stemmed from its deliberate discipline, whose moral authority was th...