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Imagining The Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): How Worship Works (2013)

by James K.A. Smith(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Nonfiction

publisher

Baker Academic

review 1: Following his book Desiring the Kingdom, James Smith gives us another thoughtful and challenging book on how what we worship forms us more than anything else. Or to put it another way, our desires and loves lead us to imagine a sort of world. Our life and actions flow from this. This is a fantastic book but I just wrote a review on the first one and am running out of steam...read the first book first then move on to this one. Both are very good.
review 2: I can't say enough about this book that is now foundational to my theological anthropology. Drawing from the deep wells of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Pierre Bordieau, Smith continues the argument he began in Desiring the Kingdom that human beings are fundamentally liturgical animals who are formed more deep... morely by what they desire than by what they think, and that our imaginative apprehension of the world funds life in the world far more than that which has intellectually convinced us. This is a book to which I will return many times and will teach if given the chance. Phenomenal. less

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