Desiring the Kingdom Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

James K. A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is the Gary & Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology & Worldview at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition, he is editor of Comment magazine and a senior fellow of the Colossian Forum. He has penned the critically acclaimed Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? and Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, and his edited books include After Modernity? and Hermeneutics at the Crossroads. Smith is the editor of the well-received Church and Postmodern Culture series (www.churchandpomo.org).

Preface Introduction: Beyond "Perspectives": Faith and Learning Take Practice Making the Familiar Strange: A Phenomenology of Cultural Liturgies The End of Christian Education: From Worldview to Worship (and Back Again) Picturing Education as Formation in Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier Elements of a Theology of Culture: Pedagogy, Liturgy, and the Church Part I: Desiring, Imaginative Animals: We Are What We Love 1. Homo Liturgicus: The Human Person as Lover From Thinking Things to Liturgical Animals From Worldviews to Social Imaginaries From Spheres to Aims: Liturgical Institutions 2: Love Takes Practice: Liturgy, Formation, and Counterformation Why Victoria's In on the Secret: Picturing Discipleship at the Moulin Rouge "Thick" and "Thin" Practices: Ritual Forces of Cultural Formation Formation, Mis-Formation, and Counter-Formation: Liturgies Secular and Christian 3. Lovers in a Dangerous Time: Cultural Exegesis of "Secular" Liturgies "Reading" Culture Through the Lens of Worship Consuming Transcendence: Worship at the Mall Marketing (as) Evangelism Picturing the Liturgy of Consumerism in The Persuaders Sacrificial Violence: The "Military-Entertainment" Complex Cathedrals of Learning: Liturgies of the University Picturing the University's Liturgies in Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons Apologetic Excursus: The Persisting Witness of Idolatry Picturing Resistance in 1984 Part II: Desiring the Kingdom: The Practiced Shape of the Christian Life 4. From Worship to Worldview: Christian Worship and the Formation of Desire The Primacy of Worship to Worldview The Sacramental Imagination: Resisting Naturalism and Supernaturalism Picturing the Sacramental Imagination in Graham Greene and Anne Sexton Excursus: The Shape of Christian Worship 5. Practicing (for) the Kingdom: An Exegesis of the Social Imaginary Embedded in Christian Worship Liturgical Time: Rhythms and Cadences of Hope Call to Worship: An Invitation to Be Human God's Greeting: Hospitality, Community, and Graced Dependence Baptism: Initiation into a Royal Priesthood/Constitution of a New People Song: Hymning the Language of the Kingdom Confession: Brokenness, Grace, Hope Law: Order, Norms, and Freedom for the Good The Creed: Situating Belief Prayer: Vocalizing Desire Scripture and Sermon: Re-narrating the World Eucharist: Supper with the King Offering: Kingdom Economics Sending: The Great Commission as Cultural Mandate Worship, Discipleship and Discipline: Practices Beyond Sunday 6. A Christian University is for Lovers: The Education of Desire A New Monasticism for the University: Why Christian Colleges Should Corrupt the Youth Christian Education Takes Practice: Three Monastic Opportunities Excursus: Christian Worship as Faculty Development: From Christian Scholars to "Ecclesial" Scholars Indexes