"James Smith argues that liturgies “are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body."
- James K.A. Smith
"All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us ..."
"If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its approp..."
"By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is g..."
"Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative."