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Garry Hagberg on philosophy as therapy

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Garry Hagberg on the therapeutic character of Wittgenstein’s philosophy The analogy between philosophy and therapy is apt because the self-investigative work required to unearth the only-indirectly manifested influences on our thought, such as misleading analogies, grammatical similarities, the falsifying and oversimplifying conceptual pictures that result from these — taken together, the deep — i.e., deep-in-language — sources of the impulses […]

James Smith’s liturgical anthropology

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James Smith’s liturgical anthropology In an earlier post I offered a book notice for James Smith’s 2009 effort Desiring the Kingdom. I thought I’d like to return to a particular theme of that work that Smith himself expands upon in the second volume of his Baker Cultural Liturgies trilogy Imagining the Kingdom (2013). I thought I’d let Smith speak for himself this time. […]

Rowan Williams on Christian Freedom

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Rowan Williams on Christian Freedom What does it mean to talk about the service of God being perfect freedom? It means that living with or in or from God provides the structure and shape that most frees us from distractedness and fragmentation of life and thought. As the Christian Platonists were always saying, this is […]

Lutheran Reading Suggestions (1)

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If there are any of you who would like to familiarize yourself with some classic Lutheran texts, here are twenty suggestions. I’ve tried to give a sampling from each of the distinguishing eras in Lutheran history, namely, the Reformation, Confessional, Scholastic, Pietist, Modern, and Contemporary periods.