Resonance Theory: How Can Connection Create Disconnection?
To experience resonance, and therefore encounter a living world or, better, a living God in the world, we not only need to feel alive but also need to be called out to act in the world.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Resonance is radically non-instrumental, Rosa stresses, so it cannot be used to maximize an outcome. It has no goal. Unlike harmony, it allows space for dissonance. In fact, resonance requires a certain friction. Paradoxically, when two people entirely agree on a point, when their experiences are fully congruent, or when an idea doesn’t encounter a... See more
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
For Eros to lead to resonance (a fullness of life and beauty) it must be bound inside person-to-person relationships that honor the mysterious boundaries of otherness.