Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural FormationMalls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love. James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy and desire in Desiring the Kingdom, the first book in what will be a three-volume set on the theology of culture. He redirects our yearnings to focus on the greatest good: God. Ultimately, Smith seeks to re-vision education through the process and practice of worship. Students of philosophy, theology, worldview, and culture will welcome Desiring the Kingdom, as will those involved in ministry and other interested readers. |
Contents
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Nabokov on Reading with Our Spines | 58 |
Liturgy Formation and Counter | 75 |
A Practices Audit | 84 |
Competing Allegiances | 108 |
Desiring the Kingdom The Practiced Shape of the Christian | 131 |
Sacramentality and Stuff in Percys Love in the Ruins | 142 |
An Exegesis of the Social | 155 |
Confession as Liberation | 180 |
Contemporary Concrete Renunciations | 189 |
Singing the End of Strangers | 206 |
The Education | 215 |
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Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation James K. A. Smith No preview available - 2009 |
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