Sublime

there is clear resonance between the counterculture’s pursuits of authenticity and conservative evangelicalism. Rick became deeply aware of the ways that the age of authenticity placed each individual on their own journey, a voyage to finding meaning and purpose, one that emphasizes individualism and the affirmation of ordinary life.

Some of us are interested in religious studies because we are interested in people. People do religious things; they symbolize and ritualize their lives and desire to be in a community. What piqued my interest in shopping malls initially was their concrete expressions of all three of these religious impulses. Quadrilateral architecture, calendrical

no longer content with the genre Theology of the New Testament, might yet practice “theology with the New Testament.”

THE fifth century was that of the barbarian invasion and the fall of the Western Empire. After the death of Augustine in 430, there was little philosophy; it was a century of destructive action, which, however, largely determined the lines upon which Europe was to be developed.

A testament to the idealism and the talents of the Jesuits of Latin America were the ‘Reductions’ (reducciones) they established in Paraguay, Argentina and southern Brazil: these were autonomous Indian communities, with townships, schools, churches, libraries, public arts and native industries; from 1609 to 1768, many of these Reductions together c

a viable postmodern Christian faith may appropriate forms of Christianity that existed before the split between “the natural” and “the supernatural.”

tradition is the flow, the changing current, we, as Christians, live in.