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The Politics of Christian Worship: How Liturgy Cultivates Political Identity.

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正題名/作者:	The Politics of Christian Worship: How Liturgy Cultivates Political Identity./
作者:	Welch, Jonathan Stephen.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	349 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-11A.
標題:	Theology. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28494825
ISBN:	9798728246015

The Politics of Christian Worship: How Liturgy Cultivates Political Identity.
Welch, Jonathan Stephen.

The Politics of Christian Worship: How Liturgy Cultivates Political Identity. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 349 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation reimagines the political-liturgical relationship in Christian theology by investigating a distinctly political dimension to Christian worship. This study observes the recent rise in scholarly attention to matters of political theology among Euro-American Protestants and builds upon such studies to argue for the significance of politics in conceptions of Christian liturgy. To this end, this study raises a series of interrelated questions from a theological perspective within liturgical studies: What is politics in Christian perspective? Does a politics of Christian worship exist? If so, what constitutes a politics of Christian worship, and what does it do within Christian liturgy?This dissertation answers such questions by asserting that Christian worship produces Christian citizens. More specifically, the thesis of this dissertation claims that corporate Christian worship-as a complex, ecclesial, liturgical, and theopolitical event-cultivates Christian political identity. This interdisciplinary study invokes the Christian imagination to recognize a politics within Christian worship by identifying the exceptional ability of Christian liturgy to supply and sustain an explicitly political dimension within Christian identity. A reimagination of politics in worship (1) repurposes existing claims from political theology and liturgical theology (2) to demonstrate a cohesive political-liturgical theory, while (3) simultaneously encouraging new academic inquiries and further theological reflections regarding the respective roles of politics and political identity in Christian worship.Chapter One develops the need for a theological reassessment of politics in Christian worship and provides an orientation to the arguments, terms, methods, and delimitations of this dissertation. Chapter Two investigates and establishes the political nature of Christianity as one warrant for a reimagination of Christian political identity. This second chapter maps recent scholarly studies in political theology, Christian worship, and Christian ethics before appropriating a Wittgensteinian linguistic strategy to delineate broad and narrow uses for the terms "politics," "worship," and "liturgy." This chapter then considers the plausible existence of Christian political identity via a biblical-theological inquiry of select theological concepts in Christian Scripture.Chapter Three recognizes idolatry and forgetfulness as political problems and appeals to the formative dimension of Christian liturgy as a political program that cultivates Christian identity in general and Christian political identity in particular. This chapter draws from relevant studies in Christian theology (e.g., N. T. Wright, James K. A. Smith, and Jonathan Leeman), liturgical theology (e.g., John Witvliet and Clayton Schmit), political theology (e.g., Oliver O'Donovan and William Cavanaugh), Christian ethics (e.g., Stanley Hauerwas and Bernd Wannenwetsch), and other related disciplines. Chapter Three concludes by constructing a theoretical and theological model for a politics of Christian worship that distinguishes requisite steps for renewing and restoring Christian political identity in Christ.Chapter Four complements the claims of Chapter Three by illustrating the politics of Christian worship in practice. This chapter incorporates the conclusions of specialists in Christian worship (e.g., James White and Robert Webber) to provide a theopolitical reading of Christian liturgy that further substantiates the extent to which Christian worship can effectively nourish and sustain Christian political identity through the liturgical practices of (1) the Christian year, (2) the weekly liturgy, and (3) specific liturgical elements. Chapter Five concludes this study's reimagination of the political-liturgical relationship by appropriating a vibrant theopolitical image from Richard Mouw to suggest that Christian worship produces Christian citizens (Phil 3:20; Heb 11:16). Chapter Five also displays this dissertation's potential for interdisciplinary application by demonstrating how the politics of Christian worship integrates and unites Christian worship with spiritual formation and missiology with reference to Edmund Clowney's trilateral model for ecclesial ministry.

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