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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
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2016
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Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
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2009
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How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
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2014
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On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
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2019
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Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
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2006
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Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works
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2013
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Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition
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2010
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Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology
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2017
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Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology
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2004
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Who's Afraid of Relativism?: Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
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2014
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A couple of clunkers in here, but I still think of Didion like an American Camus. Strongest are the two chapters on writing itself. A favorite quote: “Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were m ...more |
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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.”
― Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“We have created youth ministry that confuses extroversion with faithfulness. We have effectively communicated to young people that sincerely following Jesus is synonymous with being 'fired up' for Jesus, with being excited for Jesus, as if discipleship were synonymous with fostering an exuberant, perky, cheerful, hurray-for-Jesus disposition like what we might find in the glee club or at a pep rally.”
― You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
― You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
“We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion.”
― Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
― Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
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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.”
― Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
― Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“Lo maravilloso
nos envuelve y nos empapa
como la atmósfera;
y, sin embargo, no lo vemos.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
nos envuelve y nos empapa
como la atmósfera;
y, sin embargo, no lo vemos.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
“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”
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Happy Sabbatical!