Desiring the kingdom : worship, worldview, and cultural formation / James K.A. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural liturgies ; v. 1.Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2009.Description: 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0801035775 (pbk.)
  • 9780801035777 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.3
  • 264.001 22 Sm61d
LOC classification:
  • BV 178 .S63 2009
Contents:
Introduction: Beyond "perspectives" : faith and learning take practice. Making the familiar strange : a phenomenology of cultural liturgies -- The end of Christian education : from worldview to worship (and back again) -- Elements of a theology of culture : pedagogy, liturgy, and the church -- Desiring, imaginative animals : we are what we love. Homo liturgicus : the human person as lover -- From thinking things to liturgical animals -- From worldviews to social imaginaries -- From spheres to aims : liturgical institutions -- Love takes practice : liturgy, formation, and counter-formation. Thick and thin practices : ritual forces of cultural formation -- Formation, mis-formation, and counter-formation : liturgies secular and Christian -- Lovers in a dangerous time : cultural exegesis of "secular" liturgies. "Reading" culture through the lens of worship -- Consuming transcendence : worship at the mall -- Sacrificial violence : the "military-entertainment complex" --^Excursus : on patriotism -- Cathedrals of learning : liturgies of the university -- Apologetic excursus : the persisting witness of idolatry -- Desiring the kingdom : the practiced shape of the Christian life. From worship to worldview : Christian worship and the formation of desire -- The primacy of worship to worldview -- The sacramental imagination : resisting naturalism and supernaturalism -- Excursus : the shape of Christian worship -- Practicing (for) the kingdom : an exegesis of the social imaginary embedded in Christian worship. Liturgical time : rhythms and cadences of hope -- Call to worship : an invitation to be human -- God's greeting and mutual greetings : hospitality, community, and graced dependence -- Song : hymning the language of the kingdom -- The law : order, norms, and freedom for the good -- Confession and assurance of pardon : brokenness, grace, hope -- Baptism : initiation into a royal priesthood, constitution of a new people -- The creed : situating belief --^Prayer : learning the language of the kingdom -- Scripture and sermon : renarrating the world -- Eucharist: supper with the King -- Offering : kingdom economics of gratitude -- Sending as witnesses : the cultural mandate meets the Great Commission -- Worship, discipleship, and discipline : practices beyond Sunday -- A Christian university is for lovers : the education of desire. A new monasticism for the university : why Christian colleges should corrupt the youth -- Christian education takes practice : three "monastic" opportunities -- Christian worship as faculty development : from Christian scholars to ecclesial scholars.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Beyond "perspectives" : faith and learning take practice. Making the familiar strange : a phenomenology of cultural liturgies -- The end of Christian education : from worldview to worship (and back again) -- Elements of a theology of culture : pedagogy, liturgy, and the church -- Desiring, imaginative animals : we are what we love. Homo liturgicus : the human person as lover -- From thinking things to liturgical animals -- From worldviews to social imaginaries -- From spheres to aims : liturgical institutions -- Love takes practice : liturgy, formation, and counter-formation. Thick and thin practices : ritual forces of cultural formation -- Formation, mis-formation, and counter-formation : liturgies secular and Christian -- Lovers in a dangerous time : cultural exegesis of "secular" liturgies. "Reading" culture through the lens of worship -- Consuming transcendence : worship at the mall -- Sacrificial violence : the "military-entertainment complex" --^Excursus : on patriotism -- Cathedrals of learning : liturgies of the university -- Apologetic excursus : the persisting witness of idolatry -- Desiring the kingdom : the practiced shape of the Christian life. From worship to worldview : Christian worship and the formation of desire -- The primacy of worship to worldview -- The sacramental imagination : resisting naturalism and supernaturalism -- Excursus : the shape of Christian worship -- Practicing (for) the kingdom : an exegesis of the social imaginary embedded in Christian worship. Liturgical time : rhythms and cadences of hope -- Call to worship : an invitation to be human -- God's greeting and mutual greetings : hospitality, community, and graced dependence -- Song : hymning the language of the kingdom -- The law : order, norms, and freedom for the good -- Confession and assurance of pardon : brokenness, grace, hope -- Baptism : initiation into a royal priesthood, constitution of a new people -- The creed : situating belief --^Prayer : learning the language of the kingdom -- Scripture and sermon : renarrating the world -- Eucharist: supper with the King -- Offering : kingdom economics of gratitude -- Sending as witnesses : the cultural mandate meets the Great Commission -- Worship, discipleship, and discipline : practices beyond Sunday -- A Christian university is for lovers : the education of desire. A new monasticism for the university : why Christian colleges should corrupt the youth -- Christian education takes practice : three "monastic" opportunities -- Christian worship as faculty development : from Christian scholars to ecclesial scholars.

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