{"product_id":"the-scandal-of-holiness-renewing-your-imagination-in-the-company-of-literary-saints-hardcover","title":"The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Hooten Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLauren Winner\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 Award of Merit (Culture \u0026amp; the Arts)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHow do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year's resolutions, vision boards, thirty-day plans, and self-help books often fail to compel us to live differently. We settle for small goals--frugal spending, less yelling at the kids, more time at the gym--but we are called to something far greater. We are created to be holy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson explains that learning to hear the call of holiness requires cultivating a new imagination--one rooted in the act of reading. Learning to read with eyes attuned to the saints who populate great works of literature moves us toward holiness, where God opens up a way of living that extends far beyond what we can conjure for ourselves. Literature has the power to show us what a holy life looks like, and these depictions often scandalize even as they shape our imagination. As such, careful reading becomes a sort of countercultural spiritual discipline.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book includes devotionals, prayers, wisdom from the saints, and more to help individuals and groups cultivate a saintly imagination. Foreword by Lauren F. Winner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Great Literature as a Spiritual Discipline\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do we become better people? We often settle for small goals--frugal spending, less yelling at the kids, more time at the gym--but we are called to something far greater. We are created to be holy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Scandal of Holiness\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson shows that learning to hear the call of holiness requires developing a new imagination--one rooted in the act of reading. Reading great works of literature can help us cultivate an imagination that moves us toward holiness, where God opens up a way of living that extends far beyond what we can conjure for ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book will spur you to read more and will show you how to do it. Wilson knows the difference between being well-read and being holy as she calls us to strive for holiness even in our reading. This book illustrates how good literature can stir the imagination and how the imagination can stir us toward holiness. The voice of this book is not of an English teacher asking if you have done your reading but instead that of a smart and humble friend who says to you: 'Let me introduce you to some friends who know exactly what you're going through right now.'\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eRussell Moore\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Our imaginations will be formed by the stories we see ourselves in, and we see ourselves according to the stories we are most surrounded by. In these pages, Wilson serves as a good guide to good stories that can form our imaginations toward greater holiness and humanity.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eKaren Swallow\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ePrior\u003c\/b\u003e, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; author of \u003ci\u003eOn Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"I'll be conversing with, riffing on, and returning to \u003ci\u003eThe Scandal of Holiness \u003c\/i\u003efor months and years to come, because, although it is not\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efiction, like the best fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Scandal of Holiness \u003c\/i\u003eprods the imagination.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIt opens out. It exceeds itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eLauren F. Winner\u003c\/b\u003e (from the foreword)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Hooten Wilson \u003c\/b\u003e(PhD, Baylor University) is the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. She has written for The Gospel Coalition, \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Christian Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComment \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, and \u003ci\u003eEnglewood Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and is the author of several books, including the \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award Winner \u003ci\u003eGiving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u003c\/i\u003e. Wilson speaks regularly around the country and has connections with a broad array of reading communities and classical education forums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767340499232,"sku":"9781587435249","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/467adcfff261ebf69d3b1c08a48b2c8b.webp?v=1780309366","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-scandal-of-holiness-renewing-your-imagination-in-the-company-of-literary-saints-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}