Quotes by : James K.A. Smith

James Smith argues that liturgies “are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination....

All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in....

We have created youth ministry that confuses extroversion with faithfulness. We have effectively communicated....

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be....

Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time,....

We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of....

The church's theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian....

But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share....

It's not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly....

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.....