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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...

instruct us on the nature of the universe, human persons, our relationship with God, human communities and the moral life.20 This is echoed in more popular usages of worldview that advocate “thinking ‘worldview-ishly’ ” and the importance of “worldview-thinking” by putting the Christian “belief-system” at the center of our cognition because “how a person thinks significantly influences his [sic] actions.”21 A worldview is construed as a set of implicit ideas. Such construals of worldview belie an
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