The Congregation as a Sound Box

Abstract This article contends that Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory can stimulate ecclesiological imagination regarding the relationship of churches to their contexts. After a brief explanation of Rosa’s central images, the argument turns to their ecclesiological relevance. Churches are called to generate an integrative transformative dynamic in which vertical resonance with God correlates with resonance on the horizontal and diagonal axes. Rosa’s images of an oasis and an echo chamber help to i