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The transformative possibilities and
challenges for worship in contemporary culture
Introduction:
‘I will rise’
Possibilities of Worship
Church worship treasures storesjust one Click Away?
Challenges of Worship
Worship as therapy &
other epiphenomena
A Diagnosis?
•Commodification & Social Imagination &
Agency
• Consumerism: Perverted Liturgies
• Theological Diagnosis: Misplaced
Desire?
Possibilities for worship?
• Worship as ascetic
• Deepen Agency
• Unmask Agency
• Beyond aesthetics: ethics & politics
Addendum
‘Avatar’
ResourcesBooks
Miller, Vincent J.. Consuming Religion: Christian Faith And Practice in a Consumer Culture. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005.
Cavanaugh, William T.. Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (Challenges in Contemporary Theology). Challenges in contemporary theology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 1998.
Gregory, Eric. Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. n.p.: University Of Chicago Press, 2008.
Wannenwetsch, Bernd. Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens (Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics). Oxford studies in theological ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.
O'Donovan, Oliver. Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics. 2nd ed. n.p.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994.
O'Donovan, Oliver. The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology. n.p.: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Web Sites
‘Avatar & the Movie Blues’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/mental_health/article6992862.ece
Resources
•www.deepchurch.org.uk
•www.jasonclark.ws
•www.vineyardchurch.org