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James K.A. Smith
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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
— published 2016 — 5 editions |
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Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
— published 2009 — 6 editions |
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Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
— published 2006 — 6 editions |
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How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
— published 2014 — 3 editions |
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Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works
— published 2013 — 4 editions |
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Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition
— published 2010 — 7 editions |
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Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology
by — published 2004 — 5 editions |
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Who's Afraid of Relativism?: Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
— published 2014 — 4 editions |
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Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy
— published 2010 — 2 editions |
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Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology
— published 2017 — 2 editions |
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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
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“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.”
― James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
― James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
“[E]ducation is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation that aims our desires, primes our imagination, and orients us to the world -- all before we ever start thinking about it.”
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: 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
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“Lo maravilloso
nos envuelve y nos empapa
como la atmósfera;
y, sin embargo, no lo vemos.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
nos envuelve y nos empapa
como la atmósfera;
y, sin embargo, no lo vemos.”
― Charles Baudelaire, 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”
― Donald Hall
― Donald Hall
Happy Sabbatical!