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Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Desiring the Kingdom focuses education around the themes of liturgy, formation, and desire. The author contends—as did Augustine—that human beings are “desiring agents”; in other words, we are what we love. Postmodern culture, far from being “secular,” is saturated with liturgy, but in places such as malls, stadiums, and universities. While these structures influence us, they do not point us to...

even if not reflected upon, govern and control our being and our doing—what James Olthuis calls our “visions of and for life.”6 Worldview-thinking also seeks to discern how such worldviews orient not just persons, but also communities, institutions, and systems.7 However, while worldview-talk (which I don’t want to entirely abandon) is critical of rationalist accounts of the human person that would reduce us to thinking machines, it still tends to exhibit a fairly “heady” or cognitive picture of
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