The driving center of human action and behavior is a nexus of loves, longings, and habits that hums along under the hood, so to speak, without needed to be thought about. These loves, longings, and habits orient and propel our being-in-the-world. The focus on formation is holistic because its end is Christian action: what’s at stake here is not just how we think about the world but how we inhabit the world—how we act. We are what we love precisely because we do what we love.

James KA Smith, in Imagining the Kingdom

Worldview approaches…tend to still conceive the task of Christian education as the dissemination of a perspective, a way to see the world. My criticism here is not that worldview is wrong but only that it is inadequate. It is an approach that imagines us as primarily spectators of the world rather than actors in the world…We might have a highly developed, articulate ‘worldview’ and yet act in ways that are remarkably inconsistent with such a ‘perspective.’

James K.A. Smith, from Imagining the Kingdom