Desiring the kingdom : worship, worldview, and cultural formation /

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Main Author: Smith, James K. A., 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2009.
Series:Cultural liturgies ; v. 1.
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Table of 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.