You Are What You Love

Posted on 16 June 2018 by James K.A. Smith

You are what you love But you might not love what you think.In this book, award winning author James K A Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made Smith helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices He explains that worship is the imagination station that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom This is why the church and worshiping in a local community of believers should be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship.Following the publication of his influential work Desiring the Kingdom, Smith received numerous requests from pastors and leaders for a accessible version of that book s content No mere abridgment, this new book draws on years of Smith s popular presentations on the ideas presented in Desiring the Kingdom to offer a fresh, bottom up rearticulation The author creatively uses film, literature, and music illustrations to engage readers and includes material on marriage, family, youth ministry, and faith and work He also suggests individual and communal practices for shaping the Christian life. Best Read You Are What You Love By James K.A. Smith For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr You are what you love, not what you think, Smith says What you think is, rather, a fruit of what you love So far so good If I may say so, I felt like Smith was summarizing my dissertation though with fewer Scripture proofs at this point in his argument largely the first chapter.But then he went in a d...I mostly loved this book I have read a few other books by James K.A Smith and was pleased to find that Smith had done an excellent job adapting hisniche, academic work for a broader audience and toward wider applications.What I liked A great argument for liturgy from a reformed perspective An insightful argument for the way that the liturgies Christian and secular shape our ontology, which shapes what we love, which shapes who we are Nice ideas for choosing to shape our minds by Chris I mostly loved this book I have read a few other books by James K.A Smith and was pleased to find that Smith had done an excellent job adapting hisniche, academic work for a broader audience and toward wider applications.What I liked A great argument for liturgy from a reformed perspective An insightful argument for the way that the liturgies Christian and sec...It is not hyperbole to say that this book has changed my life, particularly when it comes to how I lead my community discipleship group, how I raise my kids, and how I interact with youth The last 6th of the book wained for me a little bit, but maybe that s because I was being over tranced by how good this book is Seriously.While it is about habit, it s not one of those if you read your Bible every day, you ll eventually want to books Rather, it focuses on liturgy, both the ones that we u It is not hyperbole to say that this book has changed my life, particularly when it comes to how I lead my c...I love Jamie Smith s mind and creativity This book is no exception Full of insight and provocation on everything from Cranmer s Book of Common prayer to how George Lucas created the Star Wars universe, via the liturgy of the shopping mall I did feel there was a tendency to overdo the emphasis on directing habit and instinct over and above the importance of training the mind because our culture needs noexcuses to bypass the mind After all, why does the apostle Paul make such a big deal I love Jamie Smith s mind and creativity This book is no exception Full of insight and provocation on everything from Cranmer s Book of Common prayer to how George Lucas created the Star Wars universe, via the liturgy of the shopping mall I did feel there was a tendency to overdo the emphasis on directing habit and instinct over and above the importance of training the mind because our culture needs noexcuses to bypass the mind After all, why does the ...I ve read both James Smith s Desiring the Kingdom and Imagining the Kingdom, the two books that are the foundation of this one This book makes the same general point of those two that we as humans are fundamentally lovers that is, the true mark of who we are is not what we believe but what we love , and that the primary way to form disciples is affectively through habit This is basically a virtue ethics type argument, but extended beyond to epistemology how we know to education and voc I ve read both James Smith s Desiring the Kingdom and Imagining the Kingdom, the two books that are the foundation of this one This book makes the same general point of those two that we as humans are fundamentally lovers that is, the true mark of who we are is not what we believe but what we love , and that the primary way to form disciples is affectively through habit This is basically a virtue ethics type argument, but extended beyond to epistemology how we know to education and vocation The primary place this happens for disciples, argues Smith, is Christian worship There are major weaknesses in this view, however First, Smith argues that we intellectualize too much Yet, it s hard to see how by focusing on worship as the primary place of formation he isn t doing the same exact thing True, it may bee...The central idea here is that human beings are not primarily thinkers, but lovers Not lovers in the sense commonly used, but rather in the most basic sense of the word human beings must have an object of love, something to worship, as David Foster Wallace said in his oft quoted commencement address , something to reach for we must have a telos, an end in mind Much of the book is spent directly in opposition to what Dr Smith calls thinking thingism, or the idea that people are formed by The central idea here is that human beings are not primarily thinkers, but lovers Not lovers in the sense commonly used, but rather in the most basic sense of the word human beings must have an object of love, something to worship, as David Foster Wallace said in his oft quoted commencement address , something to reach for we must have a telos, an end in mind Much of the book is spent directly in o...Um bom livro a respeito de como nossos h bitos n o s o meramente coisas que fazemos, mas tamb m produzem efeitos em n s Tamb m somos formados por nossos h bitos, que nada mais s o do que manifesta es daquilo que amamos verdadeiramente Destaco alguns bons insights de Smith 1 O modo como o batismo se relaciona com o conceito de igreja como fam lia , uma fam lia ainda mais importante do que nossas fam lias de sangue 2 A maneira como os dolos existentes da ind stria de cerim nias de casamen Um bom livro a respeito de como nossos h bitos n o s o meramente coisas que fazemos, mas tamb m produzem efeitos em n s Tamb m somos formados por nossos h bitos, ...I do have some quibbles here and there, but overall this is an excellent, timely, and provocative book in the best sense of the word Smith focuses on the formation of what we love and desire, and this is very important I think we need a better and deeper Christian intellectual formation to go alongside the cultivation of our loves If the church could exemplify excellent Christian character, including both intellectual and moral virtue, that would help us fulfill our redemptive role in the wor I do have some quibbles here and there, but overall this is an excellent, timely, and provocative book in the best sense of the word Smith focuses on the formation of what we love and desire, and this is very important I think we need a better and deeper Christian intellectual formation to go alongside the cultivation of...I m often quibbling with Smith As a Baptist, I think he s too high church and sacramental Like in his previous books in the Cultural Liturgies series, I think he exaggerates his thesis we re primarily lovers, not thinkers He often repeats himself e.g., as we ve argued , which is a good pedagogical tool, but I ...Probably the best book I ve read this year Impossible for me to recommend it highly enough I usually dislike re reading books, but I will be coming back to this one for certain.

16 June 2018

James K.A. Smith