“In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.”
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“Liturgies aim our love to different ends precisely by training our hearts through our bodies.”
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms transmit values and truth claims, but not via propositions or cognitive means; rather, the values are transmitted more covertly...This covertness of the operation is also what makes it so powerful: the truths are inscribed in us through the powerful instruments of imagination and ritual.”
― Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
― Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
“A sacramental understanding of the world is simply a shorthand way of describing the psalmist’s claim that "The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it" (Ps. 24:1), echoed in Paul’s claim that in the Creator God "we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28).”
― Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“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 up from there. "Doctrines" are the cognitive, theoretical articulation of what we "understand" when we pray.”
― Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
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