James K.A. Smith Quotes
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James K.A. Smith Famous Quotes & Sayings
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worship is not primarily a venue for innovative creativity but a place for discerning reception and faithful repetition. That
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?
Sealed off from enchantment, the modern buffered self is also sealed off from significance, left to ruminate in a stew of its own ennui.
Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718).
Not surprisingly, where Barnes really appreciates the haunting of immanence is in the realm of the aesthetic.
It's like we have moral muscles that are trained in the same way our biological muscles are trained when we practice a golf swing or piano scales. Now
The secular3 age is a level playing field. We're all trying to make sense of where we are, even why we are, and it's not easy for any of us.
Excarnation The process by which religion (and Christianity in particular) is dis-embodied and de-ritualized, turned into a belief system.
James Smith argues that liturgies are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.
The doubter's doubt is faith; his temptation is belief, and it is a temptation that has not been entirely quelled, even in a secular age.
too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.5
Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.