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Thursday, October 09, 2008
Twitter feed from the Fall Preaching conference
Follow our live Twitter feed from the Fall Preaching Conference held by the Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Seminary. The speaker today is Thomas Long, one of the most engaging preachers of our time. We’ll be posting key statements from his presentations. Check back later for audio and video from the conference.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Talking Web 2.0 at Lilly Consultation
Earlier this week we helped host an annual consultation of religion websites funded by the Lilly Endowment. The topic was Web 2.0, and we were all atwitter about Twitter.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Grants Colloquium ‘08 Update 3
Update from Grants Colloquium:
One of the highlights of every Colloquium is the poster session. Here’s a look at some of the posters and conversations from this afternoon:
Colloquium concludes tomorrow morning with worship and reflections. We pray for safe travel and vital worship and ministry among all our grant recipients as they return to their worshiping communities.
Update: Read Chris Meehan’s report on grant recipients from the Christian Reformed Church.
Grants Colloquium ‘08 Update 2
Update from Grants Colloquium:
Worship this morning ended with this benediction from Jude 24-25:
Now to him who is able to keep you from falling,
and to make you stand without blemish
in the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
to the only God our Savior,
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
be glory, majesty, power, and authority,
before all time and now and forevermore.Amen.
Bless the Lord.The Lord’s name be praised.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Grants Colloquium ‘08 Update 1
Update from Grants Colloquium:
For me one highlight of the day was the passing of the peace after opening worship:
Friday, May 23, 2008
Blog posts from Philosophy and Liturgy
Blog posts from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
Related Post
Initial report from John Wilson of Books&Culture
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 11
Update from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
A panel just concluded the conference with reflections and suggestions for future progress in the area of philosophy and liturgy.
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Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 10
Update from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
Terence Cuneo just spoke on icons in the Orthodox tradition as “vehicles of divine speech.”
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Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 8
Update from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
John Witvliet began the day with philosophical and theological reflections on a 4th-century eucharistic text, before Ludger Viefhues-Bailey spoke on “Displacing Bodies: Ritualization and Resistance.”
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 7
Update from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
In the most explicitly liturgical paper so far, Reinhard Hutter is discussing how the liturgy of the adoration of the sacrament articulates the belief of Christ’s presence in the Eucharist.
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Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 6
Update from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
Jamie Smith began by critiquing 20th-century philosophy of religion as clinging to rationalism and studying only the beliefs of religion rather than the lived experience and ritual practice, and reducing believers to merely holders of ideas rather than living beings. In this sense, he said, philosophers are working with the wrong tools—“thinking about thinking” rather than thinking about practice, ritual, and lived experience. Creeds, for example, did not originate as abstract statements of belief, but originated as prayers within a worshiping community. And so philosophers of religion, Smith said, will need to gain an interest and ability to consider the affective as well as the cognitive in religion.
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Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 5
Update from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
Sarah Coakley’s paper, “Beyond ‘Belief’,” followed this outline:
Introduction: How Can Liturgy be ‘True’?
I. Perceiving God: ‘Doxastic Practices’ and Liturgy
II. Feminist Epistemology and Knowledge by Relationship
III. The Spiritual Senses and Liturgical Cognition of Christ
In part II, Coakley drew on the fascinating insight that human knowledge is in part relational and affective; we may get knowledge about concrete objects by visual perception, but we know deeper truths not just by perception but through relationships. This, she said, is surely true of our relationship with God in worship. In part III, Coakley drew on patristic treatment of the “spiritual senses” and how they help us perceive, know, and become better image-bearers of, God. And so, she said, we can rightly consider what we experience in worship via our senses not as a complement to what we believe, but integrally formative of our beliefs.
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Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 4
Update from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
Angelo Cardita of the Advanced Liturgical Institute in Barcelona called for a more sophisticated model for thinking of ritual and belief--or “ritual action and critical thought.” After surveying existing material on the relationship between worship and belief--including Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium--Cardita gave this conclusion, as stated on his outline: “Philosophy is called to create a hermeneutical ‘context’--for Liturgy’s Practice and Wisdom--in such a way that the religious intentional ‘pretext’ can be re-proposed to the socio-anthropological ‘text.’”
The first respondent said this paper was a classic example of how this conference represents an opportunity for new understanding about science, religion, sociology, worship, and how they relate and interact--and for new opportunity for fresh dialogue among Christians, Jews, and Muslims about the deeper significance of their liturgical practice.
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Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 3
Update from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
Josh Reeves spoke about why philosophers have historically prioritized belief over practice, theory over action. He traced this back to Aristotle, who prioritized ‘epistome’ (theoretical knowledge) over ‘tekne’ (practical skill), especially as Aristotle’s thought was appropriated in medieval philosophy. The empiricist emphasis on “disembodied knowledge over embodied knowledge” led philosophers to fear error above all else, and thus to consider skepticism safer than belief. In religion, however, actions are essential to belief; consider, for instance, the gospels’ emphasis on authentic action as superior to words, as in the parable of the Good Samaritan. Later, though, the Reformers’ critique of over-emphasis on ritual led to an overcompensation in which cognitive belief was again privileged over practice, and the emphasis in liturgy was on mental activity.
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Philosophy and Liturgy Conference - Update 2
Update from the Philosophy and Liturgy conference:
Howard Wettstein began the day with a philosophical exposition of the Shema of Deut. 6, discussing the question of intimacy in the use of the divine name, and the messianic hope of divine unity. (Audio will be posted soon.)
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