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Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works

Book Review: Imagining the Kingdom

January 7, 2014 by Bob Trube Leave a Comment

Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works  is the second in a series of three books on cultural liturgies. Click  here  for a  review of the first in the series, i.e.,  Desiring the Kingdom. In this volume, James K.A. Smith  elaborates the ideas he developed in the first book, that we are desiring creatures and that Christian formation should take this into account through the development of "thick" Christian practices that shape our desires and perspective. In this book, he plunges deeply into the work of Pierre … [Read more...] about Book Review: Imagining the Kingdom

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works, intellectual formation, james k a smith, Pierre Bourdieu, spiritual formation

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