Deepen your love through habit

From The Living Church-

The title for this book provides its outline. First, James K.A. Smith debunks identity myths in which we’ve been immersed since Descartes pronounced, “I think, therefore I am.” We’ve been reduced to “brains-on-a-stick,” Smith says. He argues that a return to an older, more biblical understanding of who we are would bring us back to wholeness. We are lovers, the Scriptures tell us.

Next, Smith describes what we love. “We are not just static containers for ideas; we are dynamic creatures directed toward some end.” Telos draws us lovers as whole selves, our whole life long. How we grope toward love, acting out of our deepest-seated desires, brings us to the last, and main, theme of his book: love as a habit. Smith uses liturgy to mean habit-forming rituals or cultural practices that shape who we are and what we love. Secular and church liturgies can be spiritually powerful.

More here-

http://livingchurch.org/covenant/2017/09/06/deepen-your-love-through-habit/