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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...

is why the education of desire requires a project that aims below the head; it requires the pedagogical formation of our imagination, which, we might say, lies closer to our gut (kardia) than our head. Now, in the same way that I’ve tried to raise the stakes of what’s going on in the mall, I also want to raise the stakes of what’s happening in Christian worship, whether in the storefront chapel or the metropolitan cathedral. What sorts of habits are going to be fostered by these rhythms and rituals?
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