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the future of the church is ancient:
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
He described modernity’s obsession with Machen —do/make—as the belief that only what we can build, manipulate, or produce is real. This becomes the default metaphysics of acceleration: faster iteration, more output, more control. But Ratzinger contrasts this with another mode of being: Verstehen and Stehen —to understand and to stand. That is, to s... See more
Luke Burgis • Everything Is Fast
Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People (Illuminations: Theory & Religion)
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(A major issue that conservatives even today have yet to solve is how, in opposing the reductions of the immanent frame, they can avoid the perception of being against justice and mercy and can support all humans flourishing.)
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
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Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology
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The people loved Thomas because he defended the power of the pastor to drive the people into the time-bending wormhole of salvation,