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“Third, following from this, the liturgical practice of the offering indicates that Christian worship—which is a foretaste of the new creation—embodies a new economy, an alternative economy.”
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“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, but he also hallows the stuff of our hands.”
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“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”
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“For every week that we celebrate the Eucharist is another week that the kingdom and its feast have not yet fully arrived.”
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“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 practice of the Lord’s Supper carries norms in it, and these norms constitute both a basis of critique for the present order, as well as hints as to how the church should order itself as a polis that is”
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
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