{"product_id":"how-to-inhabit-time-understanding-the-past-facing-the-future-living-faithfully-now-hardcover","title":"How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames K. A. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e★ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2023 Christian Book Award(R) Winner (Christian Living)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 Book Award Finalist (Christian Living \u0026amp; Spiritual Formation)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutreach \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 Recommended\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eResource (Christian Living)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \"Best Book of 2022,\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnglewood Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This incisive and eloquent volume will expand readers' minds.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A beautifully written book. . . . [Smith] offers a good, pastoral word to Christians today.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany Christians live a faith that is \"nowhen.\" They are disconnected from the past or imagine they are somehow \"above\" the flux of history, as if every generation starts with a clean state. They lack an awareness of time and the effects of history--both personal and collective--and thus are naive about current issues, prone to nostalgia, or fixated on the end times and other doomsday versions of the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith explains that we must reckon with the past in order to discern the present and have hope for the future. Integrating popular culture, biblical exposition, and meditation, he helps us develop a sense of \"temporal awareness\" that is attuned to the texture of history, the vicissitudes of life, and the tempo of the Spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmith shows that awakening to the spiritual significance of time is crucial for orienting faith in the twenty-first century. It allows us to become indebted to the past, oriented toward the future, and faithful in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Spiritual Significance of Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany Christians live a faith that is \"nowhen.\" They are disconnected from the past or imagine they are somehow \"above\" the flux of history, immune to it, as if self-starters from clean slates in every generation. They lack an awareness of time and the effects of history--both personal and collective--and thus are naive about current issues, prone to nostalgia, and fixated on the end times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow to Inhabit Time\u003c\/i\u003e, popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that awakening to the spiritual significance of time is crucial for orienting faith in the twenty-first century. He helps us develop a sense of \"temporal awareness\" that is attuned to the texture of history, the vicissitudes of life, and the tempo of the Spirit. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book has helped me--genuinely. James Smith has helped me think about the subject of time in a fresh way. I greatly enjoyed the distilled wisdom, the broad philosophical engagement, the connecting of Scripture, tradition, and culture. Truly this book is a gift which has engaged my awareness of how we are called to live the gifts which are our lives. My hope and prayer is that the impact of this book on how we live--on the times of our lives--will be exponentially more than the time it took to read it.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eThe Most Rev.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eJustin Welby\u003c\/b\u003e, Archbishop of Canterbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"James K. A. Smith shows us that time is a gift waiting to be redeemed, and a central conviction of this book is that 'the Lord of the star fields' is intimately attuned to our haunted, beautiful histories. Dwelling with these lucid, winsome meditations on 'spiritual timekeeping' was like listening in on a lively conversation between St. Augustine, Gustavo Gutiérrez, James Baldwin, and Marilynne Robinson, while Pink Floyd's \u003ci\u003eDark Side of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e played in the background.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eFred Bahnson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSoil and Sacrament\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"James K. A. Smith's inspired work examines time not as hourglass sand running hopelessly through our fingers but as a divine gift that we can capture just enough to recognize the pearl of life that time shapes. A thoughtful and engaging book.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eSophfronia Scott\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames K. A. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (PhD, Villanova University) is a popular speaker who has written many books, including \u003ci\u003eOn the Road with Saint Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYou Are What You Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDesiring the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWho's Afraid of Postmodernism?--\u003c\/i\u003eall \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today \u003c\/i\u003eBook Award winners. He is professor of philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. He is editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eImage\u003c\/i\u003e, a quarterly journal at the intersection of art, faith, and mystery. Smith has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766057140512,"sku":"9781587435232","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/98ae24e97f39bbce92b6c3b211584ac0.webp?v=1780284613","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-to-inhabit-time-understanding-the-past-facing-the-future-living-faithfully-now-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}