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