Imagining the kingdom : how worship works / James K.A. Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: A sentimental education: on Christian action -- The end of Christian education and/as the end of worship -- Situating intellect: educating for action -- Imagining the Kingdom -- pt. 1: Incarnate significance: the body as background -- Erotic comprehension -- Perceiving (by) stories -- The geography of desire: between instinct and intellect -- My body, my horizon -- Being-in-the-world with Schneider: a case study -- Erotic comprehension: on sex, stories and silence -- The primacy of perception -- The social body -- The critique of theoretical reason -- 'Habitus' a practical sense -- Belief and the body: the logic of practice -- Incorporation and initiation: writing on the body -- pt. 2: Santified perception -- "We tell ourselves stories in order to live": how worship works -- Imaginative, narrative animals -- The primacy of metaphor and the aesthetics of human understanding -- A general poetics: imagination, metaphor, narrative -- The iPhone-ization of our world(view): compressed stories and micropractices -- Restor(y)ing the world: Christian formation for mission -- Sanctifying perception: re-narration takes practice -- Redeeming ritual: form matters -- Redeeming repitition: on habituation -- Redeeming reflection: on liturgical catechesis and Christian education.

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