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Imagining the kingdom : how worship works / James K.A. Smith.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Cultural liturgies ; v. 2.Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2013.Description: xx, 198 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801035784 (pbk.)
  • 0801035783 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 264 23
LOC classification:
  • BV15 .S485 2013
Contents:
Introduction : a sentimental education : on Christian action -- Pt. 1: Incarnate significance : the body as background. Erotic comprehension -- The social body -- Pt. 2: Sanctified perception. "We tell ourselves stories in order to live" : how worship works -- Restor(y)ing the world : Christian formation for mission.
Sidebars: PICTURING THIS. Picturing the end of worship -- Picturing the limitations of worldview : reading Wendell Berry in Costco -- Picturing love and worship in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest -- Picturing a feel for the world in Bright Star -- Picturing kinaesthetic conversion in The King's Speech -- Picturing the pedagogy of insignificance with Carson McCullers -- Picturing secular liturgies in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine -- Picturing the sanctification of perception in Jewish morning prayer -- Picturing a reflective, sentimental education -- TO THINK ABOUT. Longing lead to action -- Learning the hard way when it's the only way -- Shaping a worldview in Downton Abbey -- Existential maps of our world -- Chicken sexing and nonconscious knowledge -- Motor intentionality in Rise of the Planet of the Apes -- "Catching" sleep -- Newman on faith as love -- Schooling as ritual performance -- Slouching toward ritual -- Metaphor as godfire -- I can't say; let me tell you a story -- War games -- Imagining the reformation of manners -- Story and the economy of abundance -- The poetry of prayer -- Praying a world(view) -- Love's litany.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a sentimental education : on Christian action -- Pt. 1: Incarnate significance : the body as background. Erotic comprehension -- The social body -- Pt. 2: Sanctified perception. "We tell ourselves stories in order to live" : how worship works -- Restor(y)ing the world : Christian formation for mission.

Sidebars: PICTURING THIS. Picturing the end of worship -- Picturing the limitations of worldview : reading Wendell Berry in Costco -- Picturing love and worship in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest -- Picturing a feel for the world in Bright Star -- Picturing kinaesthetic conversion in The King's Speech -- Picturing the pedagogy of insignificance with Carson McCullers -- Picturing secular liturgies in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine -- Picturing the sanctification of perception in Jewish morning prayer -- Picturing a reflective, sentimental education -- TO THINK ABOUT. Longing lead to action -- Learning the hard way when it's the only way -- Shaping a worldview in Downton Abbey -- Existential maps of our world -- Chicken sexing and nonconscious knowledge -- Motor intentionality in Rise of the Planet of the Apes -- "Catching" sleep -- Newman on faith as love -- Schooling as ritual performance -- Slouching toward ritual -- Metaphor as godfire -- I can't say; let me tell you a story -- War games -- Imagining the reformation of manners -- Story and the economy of abundance -- The poetry of prayer -- Praying a world(view) -- Love's litany.