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James K.A. Smith

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A Soundtrack for Hope: A Spotify Playlist for AWAITING THE KING

I'm not sure when it started, but in most of my books I like to note the "soundtrack" that accompanied their production--what I was listening to while writing in coffee shops and airports and my home office. Each one is a snapshot of a phase of my listening life, as well as a kind of interpretive horizon for each book. No doubt my listening seeps into my writing.

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	You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit 4.11 avg rating — 6,849 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation 4.22 avg rating — 3,141 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts 4.31 avg rating — 2,082 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor 4.22 avg rating — 1,991 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church 3.88 avg rating — 1,222 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works 4.13 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition 3.89 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now 4.37 avg rating — 408 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology 4.14 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology by James K.A. Smith (Goodreads Author), John Milbank (Foreword by) 3.78 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Discipleship and spiritual formation are less about erecting an edifice of knowledge than they are a matter of developing a Christian know-how that intuitively understands the world in light of the Gospel.”
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

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“Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into your mind; he is after nothing less than your wants, your loves, your longings.”
― James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

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“Liturgies aim our love to different ends precisely by training our hearts through our bodies.”
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

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“In every sphere of life, form is the beginning of things. […] Forms are the food of faith, cried Newman in one of those great moments of sincerity that made us admire the know the man. […] The Creeds are believed, not because they are rational, but because they are repeated.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

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“Lo maravilloso
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y, sin embargo, no lo vemos.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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“I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine”
― Donald Hall

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