Desiring the kingdom: worship, worldview, and cultural formation

Introduction: Beyond "perspectives" : faith and learning take practice. Making the familiar strange : a phenomenology of cultural liturgies

The end of Christian education : from worldview to worship (and back again)

Elements of a theology of culture : pedagogy, liturgy, and the church

Desiring, imaginative animals : we are what we love. Homo liturgicus : the human person as lover

From thinking things to liturgical animals

From worldviews to social imaginaries

From spheres to aims : liturgical institutions

Love takes practice : liturgy, formation, and counter-formation. Thick and thin practices : ritual forces of cultural formation

Formation, mis-formation, and counter-formation : liturgies secular and Christian

Lovers in a dangerous time : cultural exegesis of "secular" liturgies. "Reading" culture through the lens of worship

Consuming transcendence : worship at the mall

Sacrificial violence : the "military-entertainment complex"

Excursus : on patriotism

Cathedrals of learning : liturgies of the university

Apologetic excursus : the persisting witness of idolatry

Desiring the kingdom : the practiced shape of the Christian life. From worship to worldview : Christian worship and the formation of desire

The primacy of worship to worldview

The sacramental imagination : resisting naturalism and supernaturalism

Excursus : the shape of Christian worship

Practicing (for) the kingdom : an exegesis of the social imaginary embedded in Christian worship. Liturgical time : rhythms and cadences of hope

Call to worship : an invitation to be human

God's greeting and mutual greetings : hospitality, community, and graced dependence

Song : hymning the language of the kingdom

The law : order, norms, and freedom for the good

Confession and assurance of pardon : brokenness, grace, hope

Baptism : initiation into a royal priesthood, constitution of a new people

The creed : situating belief

Prayer : learning the language of the kingdom

Scripture and sermon : renarrating the world

Eucharist: supper with the King

Offering : kingdom economics of gratitude

Sending as witnesses : the cultural mandate meets the Great Commission

Worship, discipleship, and discipline : practices beyond Sunday

A Christian university is for lovers : the education of desire. A new monasticism for the university : why Christian colleges should corrupt the youth

Christian education takes practice : three "monastic" opportunities

Christian worship as faculty development : from Christian scholars to ecclesial scholars.