Matthew Green’s Reviews > The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life > Status Update
Matthew Green
is 45% done
The more I read this book, the more I'm convinced that his thesis is fundamentally flawed. He attributes so many cultural ills to acceleration where they could be more easily explained by the general adoption of consumption as the promise of satisfaction (i.e., the good life). He argues repeatedly that we have a wrong concept of the good life, so why doesn't he stick with that as his thesis?
— May 03, 2022 01:37PM
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Matthew Green
is 65% done
Pinning income inequality on modern acceleration is a tough sell, what with the existence of medieval feudalism.
Finally reached his chapter on slow church where he argues that the problem is acceleration, but the solution is not deceleration. Then I'd say the problem has never been acceleration.
The solution is connection to transcendence. Viktor Frankl's book made that point better long ago and with fewer words.
— May 13, 2022 08:23AM
Finally reached his chapter on slow church where he argues that the problem is acceleration, but the solution is not deceleration. Then I'd say the problem has never been acceleration.
The solution is connection to transcendence. Viktor Frankl's book made that point better long ago and with fewer words.
Matthew Green
is 15% done
So far, this is a collection of assumptions that I believe are wrong with conceptual connections that I believe are inaccurate leading to a giant tangle of ideas that I don't think go together. I feel like I'm reading the equivalent of a schizophrenic's bulletin board covered in string.
He does have some good insights, but they're shoehorned into his patchwork chaos.
— Apr 24, 2022 08:03PM
He does have some good insights, but they're shoehorned into his patchwork chaos.
