As we close our Book Symposium on Bruce Ellis Benson’s Liturgy as a Way of Life, Bruce offers another provocative and excellent response to one of our reviewers, Nathaniel Marx. Commenting on highbrow culture, worldview seminars, tradition, and what might be called “petrified rituals” (my words, not his) in liturgy, Bruce reminds us of the […]
In our final review of the Symposium of Bruce Ellis Benson’s Liturgy as a Way of Life, Nathaniel Marx approaches Benson’s book from a different angle, engaging him and his argument with a unique cultural phenomenon that seems at first glance far away from Benson’s topic. But Marx’s cultural exegesis proves just as good as […]
Today we have Bruce Ellis Benson’s response to Linda Borecki’s very provocative and stimulating set of questions from her review of his book Liturgy as a Way of Life. Bruce’s response is equally as captivating. **Please take the time to join in this Symposium by reflecting with us in the comments below. These reviews and […]
This week’s review of Bruce Ellis Benson’s Liturgy as a Way of Life comes from Linda Borecki. ———– “Thus, the very being of life is improvisatory – by which I mean that it is a mixture of both structure and contingency, of regularity and unpredictability, of constraint and possibility. Further, if God is indeed still […]
Following up on Monday’s opening review of Bruce Ellis Benson’s Liturgy as a Way of Life by Ed Phillips, Bruce offers his response below. —————- First, I want to thank Ed Phillips for such a thoughtful response to my book. It’s always a pleasure to respond to reviewers who have interacted with one’s work at […]
We begin our Book Symposium with a fantastic review by L. Edward Phillips. Ed’s engagement with Bruce raises a series of excellent practical and philosophical questions. His review will be of interest to academics, but especially reflective practitioners. You’ll find Ed’s bio below. ————— Over the course of history, Christianity has had a bumpy relationship […]
Next week we begin a series of engagements with Bruce Ellis Benson’s terrific new book in the Church and Postmodern Culture Series, Liturgy as a Way of Life. Benson’s unique position as a philosopher and a musician come together in this creative volume to explore how our lives can be a living liturgical way of […]