Awaiting the King (Cultural Liturgies Book #3) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awaiting the King (Cultural Liturgies Book #3) write by James K. A. Smith. This book was released on 2017-11-07. Awaiting the King (Cultural Liturgies Book #3) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but also lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would look different if we viewed them as incubators of love-shaping practices--not merely governing us but forming what we love. How would our political engagement change if we weren't simply looking for permission to express our "views" in the political sphere but actually hoped to shape the ethos of a nation, a state, or a municipality to foster a way of life that bends toward shalom? This book offers a well-rounded public theology as an alternative to contemporary debates about politics. Smith explores the religious nature of politics and the political nature of Christian worship, sketching how the worship of the church propels us to be invested in forging the common good. This book creatively merges theological and philosophical reflection with illustrations from film, novels, and music and includes helpful exposition and contemporary commentary on key figures in political theology.
Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)
Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies) write by James K. A. Smith. This book was released on 2009-08-01. Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love. James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy and desire in Desiring the Kingdom, the first book in what will be a three-volume set on the theology of culture. He redirects our yearnings to focus on the greatest good: God. Ultimately, Smith seeks to re-vision education through the process and practice of worship. Students of philosophy, theology, worldview, and culture will welcome Desiring the Kingdom, as will those involved in ministry and other interested readers.
Imagining the Kingdom
Imagining the Kingdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining the Kingdom write by James K. A. Smith. This book was released on 2013-02-15. Imagining the Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2013 Word Guild Award (Academic) How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received Desiring the Kingdom. He helps us understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit formation and how liturgical formation--both "secular" and Christian--affects our fundamental orientation to the world. Worship "works" by leveraging our bodies to transform our imagination, and it does this through stories we understand on a register that is closer to body than mind. This has critical implications for how we think about Christian formation. Professors and students will welcome this work as will pastors, worship leaders, and Christian educators. The book includes analyses of popular films, novels, and other cultural phenomena, such as The King's Speech, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, and Facebook.
Resurrection and Moral Order
Resurrection and Moral Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resurrection and Moral Order write by Oliver O'Donovan. This book was released on 2020-05-21. Resurrection and Moral Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this truly seminal work, the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford University illuminates the distinctive nature of Christian ethics with profound thought and massive learning. By grounding Christian ethics in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, he avoids both a revealed ethics that has no contact with the created order and one that is purely naturalistic. For this second edition Professor O'Donovan has added a prologue in which he enters into dialogue with John Finnis, Martin Honecker, Karl Barth and Stanley Hauerwas. Essential reading for advanced students of theology and ethics and their teachers.
Body Politics
Body Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body Politics write by John Howard Yoder. This book was released on 2001-03-01. Body Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Binding and loosing, baptism, eucharist, multiplicity of gifts, and open meeting; these five New Testament practices were central in the life of the early Christian community. Some of them are still echoed in the practice of the church today. But the full social, ethical, and communal meaning of the original practices has often been covered by centuries of ritual and interpretation. John Howard Yoder, in his inimitably direct and discerning style, uncovers the original meaning of the five practices and shows why the recovery of these practices is so important for the social, economic, and political witness of the church today.
