Sublime

To be conformed to the image of his Son is not only to think God’s thoughts after him but to desire what God desires. That requires the recalibration of our heart-habits and the recapturing of our imagination, which happens when God’s Word becomes the orienting center of our social imaginary, shaping our very perception of things before we even thi

But if we are first and foremost lovers, and if our action is overwhelmingly governed by our unconscious habits, then intellectual threats might not be the most important. Indeed, we could be so fixated on intellectual temptations that we don’t realize our hearts are being liturgically co-opted by rival empires all the while. The point of looking a

You can see how deep disagreements about the telos of humanity could generate radically different accounts of what is virtuous and what is vicious. But we often don’t articulate these different ends. They remain largely implicit—yet deeply influential—in different narratives (different worldviews or social imaginaries, you might say) that envision

We now seek to apply the insights and practical experience of Edwards to our modern context. Though this is by no means an exhaustive proposal, it is a call to arms to Christians everywhere to seek true conversion and the vivifying life it creates.

Jesus himself needs to be re-presented and reconsidered, and I will do that here. A term I will offer to describe the vision of Jesus I am embracing is Christian humanism. It is a new term for me to use in my work, though not a new term in Christian history. It basically means orienting our lives by a version of Christian faith that is compassionat

Augustine is our contemporary. He has directly and indirectly shaped the way we understand our pursuits, the call to authenticity.

a contrast life aimed at communion.

suffering.”22The church doesn’t have an

Because now that the whole world has been disenchanted and we have been encased in a flattened “nature,” I expect it will be forms of reenchanted Christianity that will actually have a future.