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 Bourdieu to explore the idea of (kin)aesthetics — practices engaged in bodily that shape our lives, and the narrative imagination as it is developed through story. Smith believes that liturgical practices that ground us in the kingdom story are critical to Christian formation. [Read more…] about Book Review: Imagining the Kingdom