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Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780801035784)
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x2013 Word Guild Award (Academic)
How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. 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. 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 analyses of popular films, novels, and other cultural phenomena, such as The King's Speech, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, and Facebook.
Author: James K. A. Smith
ISBN-10: 0801035783
ISBN-13: 9780801035784
Publisher: Baker Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2013
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/10/2012
Library Journal 05/15/2013 pg. 83
Books & Culture 01/01/2014 pg. 25
How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. 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. 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 analyses of popular films, novels, and other cultural phenomena, such as The King's Speech, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, and Facebook.
Author: James K. A. Smith
ISBN-10: 0801035783
ISBN-13: 9780801035784
Publisher: Baker Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2013
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/10/2012
Library Journal 05/15/2013 pg. 83
Books & Culture 01/01/2014 pg. 25
By James K. A. Smith
xJames K. A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is the Gary & Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology & Worldview at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition, he is editor of Comment magazine and a senior fellow of the Colossian Forum. Smith is the author or editor of many books, including the Christianity Today Book Award winners Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? and Desiring the Kingdom, and is editor of the well-received The Church and Postmodern Culture series (www.churchandpomo.org).
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