Sublime

For us, as for Bach, it’s about glorifying God.

the focus on Jesus as a continuous human subject, born, maturing, dying.

This included responding specifically to Jesus’s commands (giving us baptism and the Lord’s Supper, for example), but it also included careful selection, reappropriation, and reorientation of formative cultural practices into the repertoire of kingdom-indexed liturgy.

“the arts in worship ought to be freed to form the church in their own ways though not on their own terms.”

What if, instead of starting from the assumption that human beings are thinking things, we started from the conviction that human beings are first and foremost lovers? What if you are defined not by what you know but by what you desire? What if the center and seat of the human person is found not in the heady regions of the intellect but in the gut

However the art is experienced, the presumption of this book is that the arts in worship ought to be freed to form the church in their own ways, though not on their own terms.

is right for congregations and denominations to value sustainability. But we should also recognize that what is sustainable is determined by the goods of dynamic stabilization. More work needs to be done to think about sustainability within a very different horizon: the cruciform good life.

God justifies “because” God is a minister who enters negation to bring forth new life.

Bonhoeffer might have argued that a true theological conception of persons that creates a community of persons allows for a resonance that is encountered as the revelation of Jesus Christ.