‘We Pray by His Mouth’: Karl Barth, Erving Goffman, and a Theology of Invocation

Autor:	Matthew Boulton
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Catechism Philosophy media_common.quotation_subject Invocation Religious studies Theology Praise Human being media_common
Zdroj:	Modern Theology. 17:67-83
ISSN:	1468-0025 0266-7177
Popis:	Rereading the opening question of the Westminster Catechism, “What is the chief end of man?”, I contend in this essay that the act of invocation — giving God thanks, praise, and petitions — is the act in and through which human being itself is founded, constituted and achieved. I take important cues from Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics and The Christian Life, and from sociologist Erving Goffman's work on the shifting “footings” involved in everyday interactions. I argue for an account of the human being as a being-with-God, human acting as acting-with-God, and human salvation as a restoration to the genuine human partner's work — indeed, the true leitourgia— of thanks, praise and petition to God.
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