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Desiring the kingdom : worship, worldview, and cultural formation
Title:
Desiring the kingdom : worship, worldview, and cultural formation
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Summary:
Scripture and sermon: renarrating the world -- Eucharist: supper with the King -- Offering: Kingdom economics of gratitude -- Sending as witnesses: the Cultural Mandate meets the Great Commission -- Worship, Discipleship and Discipline: practices beyond Sunday -- A Chrisitan 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 -- Christian worship as faculty development: from Christian scholars to ecclesiastical scholars.
Year Published:
2009
Series:
Physical Description:
238 p. : illus.
Contents:
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) -- Elements of a theology of culture: pedagogy, liturgy, and the church -- Desiring, imaginative animals: we are what we love -- Homo liturgicus: the human person as lover -- From thinking things to liturgical animals -- From worldviews to social imaginaries -- From spheres to aims: liturgical institutions -- Love takes practice: liturgy, formation, and counter-formation -- Thick and thin practices: ritual forces of cultural formation -- Formation, misformation, and counter-formation: liturgies secular and Christian -- Lovers in a dangerous time: cultural exegesis of "secular" liturgies -- "Reading" culture through the lens of worship -- Consuming transcendence: worship at the mall -- Sacrificial violence: the "military-entertainment complex" -- Excursus: on patriotism -- Cathedrals of learning: liturgies of the university -- Apologetic excursus: the persisting witness of idolatry -- Desiring the kingdom: the practiced shape of the Christian life -- From worship to worldview: Christian worship and the formation of desire -- The primacy of worship to worldview -- The sacramental imagination: resisting naturalism and supernaturalism -- Excursus: the shape of Christian worship -- 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 and mutual greetings: hospitality, community, and graced dependence -- Song: hymning the language of the kingdom -- The law: order, norms, and freedom for the good -- Confession and assurance of pardon: brokenness, grace, hope -- Baptism: initiation into a royal priesthood, constitution of a new people -- The creed: situating belief -- Prayer: learning the language of the kingdom -- (cont'd)
ISBN:
9780801035777
Publisher:
Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, 2009.