In recent years, much attention has been paid to the problem of disenchantment, perhaps most notably in the extensive work of Charles Taylor. This article examines the disenchantment narrative as formulated by Max Weber and appropriated by Charles Taylor, and augment this with the perspective offered by Jason Josephson-Storm and other interlocutors, to generate a reading suitable for theological use. It suggests ways in which the human person and society might be affected by disenchantment. Finally, it explores means by which prayer might be used as a resource for dealing with the causes and symptoms of disenchantment, following the example of Andrew Prevot’s careful exploration of prayer as a source of Christian thought. Prevot’s concept of doxological theology (‘thinking prayer’) is particularly useful for resisting what he identifies as three crises of modernity: secularity, the fate of Western metaphysics, and socioeconomic and identity-based violence. This describes the imperative for studies in this area: insofar as the process of disenchantment contributes to the systematic violence and dehumanisation inherent in modernity, it is vital to explore the mechanics of that process and possible tools to combat it.

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对祛魅问题的赞美诗回应

近年来，人们对祛魅问题给予了很多关注，也许最引人注目的是查尔斯·泰勒的大量著作。本文考察了马克斯·韦伯提出并被查尔斯·泰勒挪用的祛魅叙事，并用贾森·约瑟夫森-斯托姆和其他对话者提供的视角对此进行了补充，以生成适合神学用途的读物。它提出了人类和社会可能受到祛魅影响的方式。最后，它效仿安德鲁·普雷沃特（Andrew Prevot）仔细探索祈祷作为基督教思想的源泉的例子，探讨了如何将祈祷用作处理祛魅的原因和症状的资源。普雷沃的赞美神学概念（“思考祈祷”）对于抵制他所认为的现代性三大危机特别有用：世俗性、西方形而上学的命运以及社会经济和基于身份的暴力。这描述了这一领域研究的必要性：就祛魅过程助长了现代性固有的系统性暴力和非人化而言，探索这一过程的机制和可能的对抗工具至关重要。