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hooks, bell

1952–2021

The Love Ethic (Reverence as Practice)

hooks: love is not a feeling but an active practice — care, commitment, trust, knowledge, responsibility. CoCA's Doctrine of Reverence (§1.3) is a bureaucratic version of the love ethic. We do not feel reverence; we perform it, in meetings, in records, in the way the wall text addresses the visitor. The institution loves by attending. The attending is the architecture. The architecture is the church.

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