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For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netI want to supplement Willard’s emphasis on the individual practice of the spiritual disciplines with what might be a counterintuitive thesis in our “millennial” moment: that the most potent, charged, transformative site of the Spirit’s work is found in the most unlikely of places—the church!
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
a contrast life aimed at communion.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
For utilitarian thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and his contemporary followers, life as the maximizing of pleasure and the minimizing of pain implies that we can measure what is valuable. This fallacy equally applies to GDP, which fails to count unpaid work, all manner of relational goods and the shadow economy.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
John Henry Newman,