
Churches and the Crisis of Decline

Resonance is a form of action that is fundamentally a (noninstrumental) relationship. Resonance is dependent on a true encounter with something other. All true relationship (whether human-to-human, creature-to-creation, or divine-to-human) must take the form of differentiation that allows for word and response.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
Resonance is a conversation with the world. It seeks not to possess (have) the world but to act in the world in a way that both addresses and is addressed by the world. In resonance, we feel spoken to by something outside us.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
resonance is felt. You feel connected and therefore alive. There is emotion to resonance, but there is also affection. It’s not just feeling something that matters. Because this is a form of action, we must be drawn to something. This being drawn to something is engendered by affection. Resonance is a form of action that is moved by affection.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
Resonance, as a form of action bound in (noninstrumental) relationships, must confess that there are elements of reality that are nongiven and cannot be possessed. Resonance is a form of action that centers on connection, solely for the sake of connection.