Matthew Richey

“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 determining forces. Neither mechanical determinism nor libertarian freedom can really make sense of our being-in-the-world because our freedom is both “conditioned and conditional.” Both our perception and our action are conditioned, but as conditioned, it is possible for both to be spontaneous and improvisational. I learn how to constitute my world from others, but I learn how to constitute my world. The “I” that perceives is always already a “we.” My”
― James K.A. Smith, Imagining the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): How Worship Works

“The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.”
― Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
― James K.A. Smith, Imagining the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): How Worship Works

“He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community