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Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism is unavailable, but you can change that!

The task of responding to Enlightenment and Postmodern understandings of socio-economic reality has become increasingly urgent in a world where Christian communities feel themselves drowned and eroded by global consumerism. Radical Orthodoxy and its related movements and groups of thinkers have confronted today's secular triumphalists with the evidence that its own political theories are deeply,...

such a way that one becomes more united to the universal the more one is tied to the life of a particular local community. With regard to time, the Eucharist is both an act of ‘dangerous memory’ of the past death of Jesus Christ at the hands of the powers and of his resurrection, as well as the eschatological anticipation of the future Kingdom of God. This ‘memory of the future,’ in John Zizioulas’ phrase, interrupts the uniform march of time on which both capitalism and the nation-state depend,
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