James K. A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. He is the editor of Comment magazine and is a popular speaker. Smith has authored or edited many books, including Imagining the Kingdom, Who's Afraid of Relativism?, and the Christianity Today  Book Award winners You Are What You Love, Desiring the Kingdom, and Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?

• ContentsIntroduction: Liturgical Politics: Reforming Public Theology1. Rites Talk: The Worship of Democracy2. Revisiting the Church as Polis: Cultivating an Ecclesial Center of Gravity3. The Craters of the Gospel: Liberalism's Borrowed Capital4. The Limits and Possibility of Pluralism: Reforming Reformed Public Theology5. Redeeming Christendom: Or, What's Wrong with Natural Law?6. Contested Formations: Our "Godfather" ProblemConclusion: The City of God and the City We're In: Augustinian Principles for Public ParticipationIndexes

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James K. A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. He is the editor of Comment magazine and is a popular speaker. Smith has authored or edited many books, including Imagining the Kingdom, Who's Afraid of Relativism?, and the Christianity Today  Book Award winners You Are What You Love, Desiring the Kingdom, and Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?

• ContentsIntroduction: Liturgical Politics: Reforming Public Theology1. Rites Talk: The Worship of Democracy2. Revisiting the Church as Polis: Cultivating an Ecclesial Center of Gravity3. The Craters of the Gospel: Liberalism's Borrowed Capital4. The Limits and Possibility of Pluralism: Reforming Reformed Public Theology5. Redeeming Christendom: Or, What's Wrong with Natural Law?6. Contested Formations: Our "Godfather" ProblemConclusion: The City of God and the City We're In: Augustinian Principles for Public ParticipationIndexes

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James K. A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. He is the editor of Comment magazine and is a popular speaker. Smith has authored or edited many books, including Imagining the Kingdom, Who's Afraid of Relativism?, and the Christianity Today  Book Award winners You Are What You Love, Desiring the Kingdom, and Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?

• ContentsIntroduction: Liturgical Politics: Reforming Public Theology1. Rites Talk: The Worship of Democracy2. Revisiting the Church as Polis: Cultivating an Ecclesial Center of Gravity3. The Craters of the Gospel: Liberalism's Borrowed Capital4. The Limits and Possibility of Pluralism: Reforming Reformed Public Theology5. Redeeming Christendom: Or, What's Wrong with Natural Law?6. Contested Formations: Our "Godfather" ProblemConclusion: The City of God and the City We're In: Augustinian Principles for Public ParticipationIndexes

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