Rejigging Christian Culture

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chuckd
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I subscribe to Comment magazine and the past two issues, Cultural Jigs and Join the Anti-Revolutionary Party, have been great reads. I especially liked this article.

https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/4989/rejigging-christian-culture/

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In his book The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, Matthew Crawford argues that social life is structured by "cultural jigs." Cultural jigs include ideas, social pressures, and institutional pathways that constrain us in social space, ruling out certain forms of behaviour in order to streamline our actions and enabling us to take our place in the dance of social life.
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By the 1990s, Crawford argues, the United States had reached a "neoliberal consensus in which we have agreed to let the market quietly work its solvent action on all impediments to the natural chooser within." Liberation "led us to dismantle inherited cultural jigs" and leave us autonomous, isolated, free-range beings, seduced by enticing adverts and sleek technologies. We are left to ourselves, with a high "burden of self-regulation," and we don't do it very well: "We are now very fat, very much in debt, and very prone to divorce."
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Over the past two centuries, Christian worship has been invaded by the same ideology of free choice I've examined. Prescribed orders of worship are regarded as offences against the Spirit. Ritual stultifying. A printed bulletin occasions suspicion of drift toward Roman Catholicism. It is impossible for worship to be completely free-form, and anti-liturgical churches tend to fall unconsciously into habitual, repetitive patternswhat Lori Branch has wittily called "rituals of spontaneity." But the official liturgical "theology" of many churches is an ecclesial version of Rieff's primacy of possibility.
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Liturgy should instead jig Christians to be in the world but not of it. Specifically, classic liturgy includes jigs that combat the distortions of consumerism, multiculturalism, and economic sex, jigs that shape our conduct outside the liturgy. Or, better, the jigs of gathered worship equip us for the leitourgia that is Christian living.
7thGenTexan
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Would you translate that into English please?

chuckd
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World habits bad, church habits good.
Marco Esquandolas
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A christian critique of neoliberalism! It's like seeing a unicorn!
7thGenTexan
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chuckd said:

World habits bad, church habits good.


That's sage, man.
Solo Tetherball Champ
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chuckd said:

World habits bad, church habits good.

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