This workshop will explore the ways in which the language and practices of the State colonize the Christian imagination for temporal ends. Our working thesis will be that the State’s “liturgy” is not entirely secular; neither, however, is the Church’s liturgy entirely sacred. Rather, the rhetoric of sacred/secular enables State to privatize the Church’s message whilst sacralizing its own machinations. We shall take cues from St. Augustine as well as concrete grassroots leaders and organizations that challenge the State’s absolutization of its own authority.
Listen to Scott Clyburn’s workshop, “Church & State through the Ages”, from the Church & State conference on October 27, 2012 at Multnomah University.
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