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  • 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

    $21.59 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

    $17.29 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

    $19.49 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $14.39 USD

  • 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

  • Speech and Theology

    Language and the Logic of Incarnation

    by James K.A. Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Radical Orthodoxy
    God is infinite, but language finite; thus speech would seem to condemn Him to finitude. In speaking of God, would the theologian violate divine transcendence by reducing God to immanence, or choose, rather, to remain silent? At stake in this argument is a core problem of the conditions of divine revelation. How, in terms of language and the limitations of human understanding, can transcendence ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Discipleship in the Present Tense

    Reflections on Faith and Culture

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    In this accessible, insightful book, noted Christian scholar and award-winning author James K. A. Smith gathers together a range of his writing for popular audiences. Working at the intersection of faith and culture, past and present, church and world, Smith offers both incisive cultural criticism and winsome articulation of a robust Christian faith in our "secular age." Whether he's making a case ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    On the Road with Saint Augustine

    A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    Narrated by Michael Page ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 15 min

    This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect.Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Desiring the Kingdom

    Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans—as Augustine noted—are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy and desire in Desiring the Kingdom, the first book in a three-volume set on the theology of culture. He redirects ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook