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How does Christian ethics begin? This pioneering study explores the grammar of the Christian life as it is embodied and learned in worship as the formative experience of the'fellow citizens of God's people'. The book presents the first in-depth theological investigation of the phenomenon of'political worship'by exposing the political nature of worship and the worship dimension of politics. In a careful analysis of biblical and traditional conceptions of worship, Wannenwetsch demonstrates how the genuine political character of worship neutralizes attempts to politicize or de-politicize it. In the imprinting of the experience of divine reconciliation on the Christian body, worship challenges the deepest antagonisms of political theory and practice: antagonisms of'private and public','freedom and necessity', and'action and contemplation'. At the same time, the'spill over'of worship into every sphere of life instils a healthy suspicion of post-liberal conceptualizations of role-mobility. In the experience of'hearing in communion', an encounter with a word that does not deceive announces the end of the rule of the hermeneutics of suspicion. Further questions discussed include the condit

Author

Bernd Wannenwetsch

Publisher

Oxford University Press; OUP Oxford

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191570353

Subjects

Religion, Christian