James A Smith: 68 books
The Great Coharie
Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Great Coharie River, named for an Indian tribe, became a place of retreat and solitude for author James A. Smith. This was where he felt at ease and could become one with nature. It was the place where he was accepted without criticism. And it was his safe place, away from beatings he had come...
Who's Afraid of Relativism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Following his successful Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? leading Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig Wittgenstein,...
You Are What You Love
The Spiritual Power of Habit
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.
In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the...
On the Road with Saint Augustine
A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
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...
Faith That Matters
365 Devotions from Classic Christian Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Together for the first time in one devotional, experience daily readings from such bestselling and respected voices as Frederick Buechner, Brennan Manning, Henri Nouwen, Eugene Peterson, James Bryan Smith, A. W. Tozer, Dallas Willard, and N. T. Wright. Faith That Matters was designed to help you confidently...
Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
Reflections on Faith and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
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...
Awaiting the King (Cultural Liturgies Book #3)
Reforming Public Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but also lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would...
The Fall of Interpretation
Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this provocative book James K. A. Smith, one of the most engaging Christian scholars of our day, offers an innovative approach to hermeneutics. The second edition of Smith's well-received debut book provides updated interaction with contemporary hermeneutical discussions and responds to criticisms.
Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)
Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
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...
Introducing Radical Orthodoxy
Mapping a Post-secular Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Although God is making a comeback in our society, popular culture still takes its orders from the Enlightenment, a movement that denied faith a prominent role in society. Today, many are questioning this elevation of reason over faith. How should Christians respond to a secular world that continues...
Like Cattle and Horses
Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was...
Imagining the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)
How Worship Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
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...
by J. Brian Benestad, Robert Benne, Bruce Fields
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
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 divergent political ideals and aims among...
by Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A. Smith, Ralph C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...