Sublime

Simple honesty and humility.

deriving our value and contentment from our rootedness in relationship, in our connection with each other and with all of creation.

Catherine Keller, “After Omnipotence: Power as Process,” in On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process

Rosa shows how speeding up molds our cultural realities by affecting our sense of identity, even shifting our sense of the good 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.

keeping company with Jesus no matter how little or much God speaks to me through his Word

the challenge we face—whether in faith formation, pastoral identity, or the congregation—is the loss of divine action. Divine action is made opaque for many reasons, which Charles Taylor has helped us see.2 But all these reasons rest squarely on Rosa’s conception of alienation. If modernity creates the conditions for this alienation through continu

so Barth had to start all over, seeking a way to speak of the coming of a transcendent God into the immanent frame of modern life.