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After a few "Well actually..." moments watching Rings of Power it was time for yet another read-through

"For most of church history, Christians understood prayer not primarily as a means of self-expression or an individual conversation with the divine, but as an inherited way of approaching God, a way to wait into the ongoing stream of the church's communion with him." (8)

"Only he can safely govern who prefers to live in submission, and only he can safely command who prefers to obey."

"Ritual... is best approached through what it does rather than through what it may mean..."

"...our contemporary period is marked by an overwhelming concern with sincerity at the expense of ritual..."

"This view understands the religious act... As the vehicl for self-expression and fulfillment. It is less Gods work that is being realized in the world than one's own projection of selfhood."