Innovative returns to tradition…
Great article from US News here: A return to tradition. This echos in many ways the themese of deep church and what this site is looking to exlore. Here is a taster…
“Something curious is happening in the wide world of faith, something that defies easy explanation or quantification. More substantial than a trend but less organized than a movement, it has to do more with how people practice their religion than with what they believe, though people caught up in this change often find that their beliefs are influenced, if not subtly altered, by the changes in their practice.
Put simply, the development is a return to tradition and orthodoxy, to past practices, observances, and customary ways of worshiping. But it is not simply a return to the past—at least not in all cases. Even while drawing on deep traditional resources, many participants are creating something new within the old forms. They are engaging in what Penn State sociologist of religion Roger Finke calls “innovative returns to tradition.”
This also seems a good time for Jason and I to wish you all of a wonderful blessed christmas and thank you for your readership and participation with us in exploring deep church together!
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6.01 pm on 2.6.2008
For the principles behind the traditions to rise will give strength to fresh renderings of enactment to find their place in the historical body of worship work.
To simply recover the traditions themselves, will aid this, but as with all things human hands touch, could suffer again as either novelty or concretized ritual.
I’m all for the quest backward and forward, and yet am aware of our inclinations with even the holiest of ideas. Sometimes, we must go back to what was in order to find our way to what can be (even should be).
Thanks for the post guys.
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