Imagining the Kingdom Smith Associate Professor James K A Calvin College
Imagining the Kingdom Smith Associate Professor James K A Calvin College How does worship work? What are the dynamics of such transformation? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? Smith's…
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Imagining the Kingdom Smith Associate Professor James K A Calvin College
How does worship work? What are the dynamics of such transformation? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us?
Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received Desiring the Kingdom. In the second of James K. A. He helps us understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit formation and how liturgical formation--both "secular" and Christian--affects our fundamental orientation to the world.
Worship "works" by leveraging our bodies to transform our imagination, and it does this through stories we understand on a register that is closer to body than mind. This has critical implications for how we think about Christian formation.Professors and students will welcome this work as will pastors, worship leaders, and Christian educators. The book includes