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Desiring the Kingdom
- Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
- By: James K.A. Smith
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 114
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans - as Augustine noted - are "desiring agents", full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love. James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy and desire in Desiring the Kingdom, the first book in a three-volume set on the theology of culture. He redirects our yearnings to focus on the greatest good: God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wish it was Smith reading this. But still good.
- By Adam Shields on 02-13-18
- Desiring the Kingdom
- Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
- By: James K.A. Smith
- Narrated by: John Pruden
Simply Unhelpful
Reviewed: 04-03-23
This book has been the least helpful and least interesting read I have undertaken in my walk as a christian and seminarian. The author does a great job of leading the reader to see how desire is shaped by worldviews competing alongside the Christian worldview. Little direction is given toward providing a realistic, sizable difference in the problems which the author asserts. Critical and alarmist in nature with double standards of how worldviews were treated. The reader of the audiobook did a fine job.
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