Educating Our Desires for God's Kingdom (Review Article)

Abstract

THIS ARTICLE IS an extended review of James K. A. Smith's latest and much-discussed book, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009).

Keywords

worldview worship Christian education pedagogy philosophical anthropology social imaginary cultural formation

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