
Churches and the Crisis of Decline

The meaningless statement “God is God” explains nothing but nevertheless reminds us that to speak of God is to witness to one who cannot be explained. To say “God is God” is to claim that God is beyond explanation. It is to seek to name the one who takes no concern for human constructs of explanation.
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When this happens, an activity like mundane data entry is made the same as painting a landscape. Organizing your sock drawer is ultimately the same as teaching a class of eager fifth graders to write a poem. Action is merely the expenditure of energy, and thus all action is the same.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
Religion does not want a living God—who is alive in speaking both a yes and a no—it wants an object to use for its own individual meaning making.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
Jesus identifies with humanity enhypostatically, and through his own humanity as the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity, he takes humanity into direct participation with God the Father through the Spirit. Through Jesus’s anhypostasis, we participate in God, though we are never something other than human. We are in Christ, transformed t
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Eventually, if the two forks stay in communion, the freedom of the mutual responsive resonance will result in a synchronous resonance. Eventually the two tuning forks will join frequencies and become stronger, but not by expending energy in having a louder frequency. The stronger frequency is produced by harmony, not competition. The power of the a
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Woz wanted the practices and visions to experience God as God, just as his grandmother had, just as the Younger taught Barth to seek. This struck the whole group as incoherent.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
once it became clear that those with consecrated being were misusing their activities, the revolution began. The Reformers shifted the focus from what you did to how you did it. This had the effect of making all activity equal before God—whether giving the Mass or changing a baby’s diaper. All
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
If we understand waiting as a concrete form of action called resonance, then there is one more element to this that we must discuss. This element proves important for the church. Rosa explains that resonance is “only possible where we act in accordance with our strong evaluations, where our cognitive and evaluative maps converge with our being or b
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