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  • Evolution and the Fall

    Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, James K. A. Smith ...
    What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates—as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest—then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How (Not) to Be Secular

    Reading Charles Taylor

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present -- a pluralist ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Logic of Incarnation

    James K. A. Smith's Critique of Postmodern Religion

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    With his Logic of Incarnation, James K. A. Smith has provided a compelling critique of the universalizing tendencies in some strands of postmodern philosophy of religion. A truly postmodern account of religion must take seriously the preference for particularity first evidenced in the Christian account of the incarnation of God. Moving beyond the urge to universalize, which characterizes modern ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

    Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    Series series The Church and Postmodern Culture
    The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a deep affinity with central Christian claims.Each chapter opens with an illustration from a recent movie and concludes with a case study considering ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Imagining the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)

    How Worship Works

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    Series series Cultural Liturgies
    How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received Desiring the Kingdom. He helps us understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear

    by Matthew Kaemingk ...
    An alternative, uniquely Christian response to the growing global challenges of deep religious differenceIn the last fifty years, millions of Muslims have migrated to Europe and North America. Their arrival has ignited a series of fierce public debates on both sides of the Atlantic about religious freedom and tolerance, terrorism and security, gender and race, and much more. How can Christians ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Neighbors

    The Common Good Made Local

    by Amar D. Peterman ...
    The work of cultivating the common good starts in your own neighborhood.In Becoming Neighbors, Amar D. Peterman explores how the common good can be cultivated through the practice of neighbor love. And he encourages Christians to join their neighbors at what he calls "the shared table"—a space where communities gather across differences to work towards the flourishing of the whole.Within every ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The State of the Evangelical Mind

    Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future

    by Mark Galli, Timothy Larsen, Jo Anne Lyon, Richard J. Mouw, Mark A. Noll, James K. A. Smith, Lauren F. Winner, C. Donald Smedley ...
    Series series Advances in Church-Related Higher Education
    Two decades on from Mark Noll's Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, could we now be on the threshold of another crisis of intellectual maturity in Christianity? Or are the opportunities for faithful intellectual engagement and witness even greater now than before?These essays invite readers to a virtual "summit meeting" on the current state of the evangelical mind. The insights of national leaders in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evolution and the Fall

    Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, James K. A. Smith ...
    What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates—as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest—then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nicene Option

    An Incarnational Phenomenology

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    Christian philosophy and philosophy of religion tend to be dominated by analytic approaches, which have brought a valuable logical rigor to the discussion of matters of belief. However, the perspectives of continental philosophy--in particular, the continental emphasis on embodied forms of knowing--still have much to offer to the conversation and our understanding of what it means to be both ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Letters to a Young Calvinist

    An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    Who would have guessed that something as austere as Calvinism would become a hot topic in today's postmodern culture? At the 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth, new generations have discovered and embraced a "New Calvinism," finding in the Reformed tradition a rich theological vision. In fact, Time cited New Calvinism as one of "10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now." This book provides ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Five Views on the Church and Politics

    by J. Brian Benestad, Robert Benne, Bruce Fields, Thomas W. Heilke, James K.A. Smith, Amy E. Black, Stanley N. Gundry ...
    Series series Counterpoints: Bible and Theology
    Learn to think deeply about the relationship between church and state in a way that goes beyond mere policy debates and current campaigns.Few topics can grab headlines and stir passions quite like politics, especially when the church is involved. Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics--and of the varying and sometimes ... Read more

    $6.49 USD