Sublime

Liturgy is the way we learn to “put on” Christ (Col. 3:12–16).

Perversely, irony relies on some remains of cultural capital in order to coherently express its destructive message. If elevated beyond commentary and analysis to its own pedestal of artistic value, its essence become desacralization and the making trite of deep truths we might prefer to respect and conserve.

“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”

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This, it turns out, is not an accident. See Ira Zepp, The New Religious Image of Urban America: The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1997).