outsourcing the “social” to the state

Related to my previous post on “right worship”:

the church and postmodern culture: conversation: Postmodernity vs. the Gospel?
in the American situation, the church had followed a Constinitian model (of both trying to rule politically and rationally via strategic alliances with Enlightenment theories of the State and Reason). Because of this, the Church STOPPED being its own politic, its own apologetic, and out sourced itself to the State and Enlightenment Reason.

Seems to me that my “model” or “guide” community, The Church of the Saviour, is a “resourcement” approach ; so much so to the extent that someone who “looked up” some stuff on Church of the Saviour after I had visited there, told me that after reading an interview with Gordon Cosby, that they “sounded pretty conservative”, which I believe translates as “they use a lot of traditional language”, which suggests something of a resourcement approach; seeking a reinvigoration of

as in Jamie’s comment here:

One could see something similar in current discussions about our relation to postmodernity (and this goes back to David’s point re: contextualization): some take an aggiornamento stance and would say that the church needs to engage postmodernity in order to “update” the church and/or theology to be “relevant” for the contemporary world; others [like me] would advocate a ressourcement strategy and would see the engagement with postmodernity as an occasion for retrieving pre-modern practices, etc.
— from a comment under Postmodernity vs. the
Gospel here

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