James K.A. Smith
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in Stratford, Ontario, Canada
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
10 editions
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2016
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Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
14 editions
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2009
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On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
11 editions
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2019
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How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
5 editions
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2014
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Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
8 editions
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2006
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Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works
6 editions
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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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How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
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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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“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
“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.”
― You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
― You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
“Liturgies aim our love to different ends precisely by training our hearts through our bodies.”
― Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
― 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.”
― 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!