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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...

The repertoire of historic Christian worship carries in it a “social imaginary” that constitutes the biblical vision of flourishing for creation and culture. Implicit in the practices of Christian worship is an economics, a sociology, a politics. The goal of this chapter, then, is to delineate how Christian worship carries the scriptural vision of the church as polis in order to then discern what that means for Christian political engagement in the saeculum, in this “era” between the fall and parousia
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