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    Theology - Liturgical: Deconstruction and de-liturgization

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    Richard Fenn (Liturgies and Trials) notes that serious, absolutely binding speech – promises, for instance – is comparatively rare in normal conversation.  When we do make binding promises, we give ad receive “signs and symbols that something out of the ordinary is occurring” – an oath, an exchange of rings, witnesses.

    He sums up, “The liturgical language of religion is therefore the last human defense against the slipperiness, ambiguity, and uncertainty of all human acts of speech; and even these liturgical guarantees are widely known to fail.”

    Is it a surprise, then, that deconstruction and all the modes of postmodern suspicion should arise on the heels of the de-liturgization of social life?

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 2:11 pm