Sublime

The decision that “we the people” can mobilize our own way of life—matching in intention, but not in form, God’s own design—signals entry into a whole new function of religion matching the conception of the age of mobilization. We enter into a neo-Durkheimian dispensation.

What made Warren’s perspective both genius and problematic is that he offered Jesus at the level of the nova effect. Jesus was another third option amongst the thousands of others. Of course Warren was not shy in claiming that Jesus was the best option, a third way that could actually deliver in providing purpose and individual flourishing. But onc

Because we need an integrated story to have some connection to the good life, we find that this imposed disintegration has the effect of eroding our commitments. It’s easy to be committed to something when it is deeply integrated into your story of the good life.

The “ages” triad is the movement from what Taylor calls the ancien régime to the age of mobilization to the age of authenticity.

when Israel was restored, the whole creation would be restored.195 Thus it is not surprising that we find echoes in the gospels of strange events in which Jesus exercises power over the natural order, bringing it into a new harmony with itself and with the divine saving purpose only previously seen at odd moments such as the crossing of the Red Sea

“womanly arts”

The more resources, the more you were engaged; and the more you were engaged, the more viable this spirituality was within the nova effect. It could provide meaning, shape your passages through time, and help your ordinary life be one of individually experienced flourishing. As Mark Chaves has shown, churches in America are polarized in the sense o

she would make of the position of old maid something creative and new.