Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works (Cultural Liturgies) by James K. A. Smith
English | February 15, 2013 | ISBN: 0801035783 | 224 pages | PDF (Converted) | 1.98 Mb
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.