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Introduction: A Sentimental Education: On Christian Action

1.1. The End of Christian Education and/as the End of Worship
1.2. Situation Intellect: Educating for Action
1.3. Imagining the Kingdom
2. Part 1: Incarnate Significance: The Body as Background
2.1. Erotic Comprehension
2.1.1. Perceiving (by) Stories
2.1.2. The Geography of Desire: Between Instinct and Intellect
2.1.3. My Body, My Horizon
2.1.4. Being-in-the-World with Schneider: A Case Study
2.1.5. Erotic Comprehension: On Sex, Stories, and Silence
2.1.6. The Primacy of Perception
2.2. The Social Body
2.2.1. The Critique of Theoretical Reason
2.2.2. Habitus as Practical Sense
2.2.3. Belief and the Body: The Logic of Practice
2.2.4. Incorporation and Initiation: Writing on the Body
3. Part 2: Sanctified Perception
3.1. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: How Worship Works
3.1.1. Imaginative, Narrative Animals
3.1.2. The Primacy of Metaphor and the Aesthetics of Human Understanding
3.1.3. A General Poetics: Imagination, Metaphor, Narrative
3.1.4. The iPhone-ization of Our World(view): Compressed Stories and Micropractices
3.2. Restor(y)ing the World: Christian Formation for Mission
3.2.1. Sanctifying Perception: Re-Narration Takes Practice
3.2.2. Redeeming Ritual: Form Matters
3.2.3. Redeeming Repetition: On Habituation
3.2.4. Redeeming Reflection: On Liturgical Catechesis and Christian Education