Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works Paperback - 2013
by James K. Smith
From the rear cover
A Liturgical Theology of Culture
"Imagining the Kingdom is a fit successor to Jamie Smith's remarkable Desiring the Kingdom. The new book is, like its predecessor, learned but lively, provocative but warmhearted, a manifesto and a guide. Smith takes Christians deeper into the artistic, imaginative, and practical resources on which we must draw if we wish to renew not only our minds but also our whole beings in Christ."
--Alan Jacobs, Honors College of Baylor University
"In this wonderfully rich and engagingly readable book of 'liturgical anthropology, ' Smith makes a persuasive case for the thesis that human beings are best understood as worshiping animals. It has important implications at once for practical theology's reflection on religious formation, liturgy, and pedagogy and for philosophical theorizing about just what religion is. And it develops as an engaging and lively conversation among an astonishing mix of people: imagine Calvin, Proust, Merleau-Ponty, Augustine, Wendell Berry, Bourdieu, and David Foster Wallace all in the same room really talking to each other about being human and how to think about it!"
--David Kelsey, Yale Divinity School
"Jamie Smith shows us that the gospel does not primarily happen between our ears but in all the movements of the body by which we are formed and in turn form the world. I know of no more thorough and sophisticated account of how secular liturgies form and deform us and how Christian liturgies can help. Though sophisticated, Smith's book is also a delight. Its pages are filled with great poetry and insights from films, novels, and everyday life."
--William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University
"A thought-provoking, generative reflection on the imagination-shaping power of Christian worship practices. What an ideal book for crossing boundaries among academic disciplines and between the academy and the church."
--John D. Witvliet, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Calvin College, and Calvin Theological Seminary
"It is heartening to set one's eyes on Jamie Smith's bold and creative endeavor to awaken Christians, Protestants in particular, to the centrality of worship in even, nay especially, our moral lives. This thoughtful book is rightly concerned with a restoration of the Christian imagination rooted in habits of virtue."
--Vigen Guroian, University of Virginia
Details
- Title Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works
- Author James K. Smith
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Baker Academic
- Date 2013-02-15
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780801035784 / 0801035783
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Philosophical anthropology, Imagination
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012032893
- Dewey Decimal Code 264
Media reviews
Citations
- Books & Culture, 01/01/2014, Page 25
- Library Journal, 05/15/2013, Page 83
- Publishers Weekly, 12/10/2012, Page 0
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