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Attuned to Christ

Name: Attuned to Christ
Brand: AUGSBURG FORTRESS PUBLISHERS
SKU: 9798889837619
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AUGSBURG FORTRESS PUBLISHERSISBN: 9798889837619

Worship Ethics in a Neoliberal World

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By David Bjorlin
Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
Release Date: July 26, 2027
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 320 g
Pages: 270

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Too often, the corrupting effects of neoliberal capitalism upon worship are the waters we swim in--ubiquitous but unnoticed. Many scholars have explored how competing stories or cultural liturgies have malformed Christian worship and discipleship. However, save consumerism, the ways in which neoliberal forms of capitalism and its central values--individualism, competition, infinite growth, and an entrepreneurial spirit--have influenced the doxological life of the church have largely been overlooked.

David Bjorlins Attuned to Christ fills this lacuna by examining five themes central to Christian worship--place, time, community, attention, and imagination--and demonstrating the ways neoliberal capitalism has malformed these goods in both evangelical and mainline worship. We are not, however, left defenseless against the totalizing effects of neoliberalism. Bjorlin demonstrates that our shared tradition also offers liturgical practices that can counter these effects and help us imagine more faithful ways of being in the world.

Bjorlin leavens his critique of how neoliberalism has malformed our worship with concrete ways we might reform our practices, both within and outside church walls. Each chapter offers two liturgical practices and shows how they not only reform worship but also "systematically extend" the goods of the practice into our common life. Further, we also need personal and communal rituals outside the church and its liturgy that can resonate with and strengthen these liturgical practices for a more holistic--if always partial and contingent--transformation. Thus, each chapters pair of liturgical practices is augmented with two suggested extra-ecclesial practices. Liturgical scholars and worship practitioners alike will find freedom in this book to imagine and live our lives of faith more fully.

David Bjorlin is an associate professor of worship at North Park Theological Seminary. His work focuses on congregational song, liturgical language, and the connections between worship and Christian formation. He is also a widely published hymnwriter whose latest collection, Hope Will Not Fail, was published by GIA in 2024.

This is a book the church desperately needs, wedding critical intellectual reflection with a vision for mission and practice. Synthesizing contemporary scholarship from a range of disciplines, Bjorlin grants an apocalyptic angle on our everyday surroundings. But the final word is hope. This is serious thinking that will empower practitioners.

--James K. A. Smith, professor of philosophy, Calvin University, and author of Desiring the Kingdom: Formation, Education, Liberation (2nd ed. 2026) and Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark (2026)

In Attuned to Christ, David Bjorlin offers fresh insight into the relationship between worship and ethics in a neoliberal world. Incisively unveiling neoliberalisms subtle malformations, he articulates a hopeful vision grounded in practices of attunement embodied, nurtured, and sustained in the worship of the church. This book is essential reading for all seeking to discern faithful responses to our present cultural moment with nuance, clarity, and compassion. --Antonio Eduardo Alonso, Aquinas Associate Professor of Theology and Culture, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

Attuned to Christ is meticulously researched, engaging, honest, and brilliant! David Bjorlin provides a profound and substantive analysis that could transform the worship experience for many Jesus followers. Bjorlin does not take the easy road of ranting against Christian consumerism, scolding church folks for lazy liturgy, then offering a simple "how-to" list that might foster mere cosmetic changes to fix a serious malady. Instead, Bjorlin, a skilled practitioner and careful scholar, identifies why our worship of God might fall short of what we truly need and desire, and skillfully charts a course toward a true, good, and beautiful alternative. --Dennis R. Edwards, former seminary dean and vice president for church relations, North Park Theological Seminary, and author ofHumility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character (2023)

Attuned to Christ maps the crucial, pervasive, and largely unacknowledged ways that neoliberalism marks our lives and our worship. David Bjorlin charts a pathway between capitulation and resistance, pointing to concrete practices within and beyond the church that offer a way forward. Such an account could easily be overwhelming or elicit despair. Most astonishingly, by the end of the book I felt empowered and hopeful, encouraged in practices that I already pursue and open to exploring new ways of attuning to Christ in a neoliberal landscape. --Sarah Kathleen Johnson, associate professor of liturgy and pastoral theology at Saint Paul University and author of Occasional Religious Practice: Valuing a Very Ordinary Religious Experience (2025)

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