tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968430195134552598.post5213552669380507332..comments2023-05-07T18:36:22.804-07:00Comments on The Eudaimonia Blog: St. Louis PresentationMike Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345931409745318186noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968430195134552598.post-47708149373681084782012-05-29T22:42:18.291-07:002012-05-29T22:42:18.291-07:00You have a lot of great ideas all vying for attent...You have a lot of great ideas all vying for attention in that space. A lot to trim down. Perhaps a way of organizing it is in terms of "life in the kingdom" or some such? Life in the kingdom invokes the communal nature of Christian identity and the catholicity of the faith, but it also speaks of the day-to-day nature of that life, which points to vocation. <br /><br />This is one where I think "Damn, I'd kill to have someone like Chesterton or Lewis around to write a story about "a day in the life of the kingdom" or something like that." Any good presentation on this topic is going to almost have to be narrative-based, I suspect. You might look into reading Ephraim Radner, who I've been told by multiple people is very good on thinking about global church issues from a Protestant perspective. <br /><br />One other point here, that may tie things together a bit: I think much of the church's inability to imagine itself in a culture-making capacity is due to our failure to understand the church as a political community, by which I mean a community of individuals sharing a common, universalizing belief with a well-defined telos that applies to all of life. If you understand the church as a political community, then you understand that it has specific rituals and norms that are part of life within the polis as well as certain beliefs and values that are essential for membership in the polis.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14287193776037405708noreply@blogger.com