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You Are What You Love - The Spiritual Power of Habit James K. A. Smith

You Are What You Love - The Spiritual Power of Habit By James K. A. Smith

You Are What You Love - The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K. A. Smith


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A popular speaker and award-winning author helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices.

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You Are What You Love - The Spiritual Power of Habit Summary

You Are What You Love - The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K. A. Smith

Christianity Today Book Award Winner Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Center Book Award 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 ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices. He explains that worship is the imagination station that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. This is why the church and worshiping in a local community of believers should be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship. Following the publication of his influential work Desiring the Kingdom, Smith received numerous requests from pastors and leaders for a more accessible version of that book's content. No mere abridgment, this new book draws on years of Smith's popular presentations on the ideas in Desiring the Kingdom to offer a fresh, bottom-up rearticulation. The author creatively uses film, literature, and music illustrations to engage readers and includes new material on marriage, family, youth ministry, and faith and work. He also suggests individual and communal practices for shaping the Christian life.

About James K. A. Smith

James K. A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. He is the editor of Comment magazine. Smith has authored or edited many books, including Imagining the Kingdom, Who's Afraid of Relativism?, and the Christianity Today Book Award winners Desiring the Kingdom (over 30,000 copies sold) and Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? He is also editor of the well-received The Church and Postmodern Culture series.

Table of Contents

Contents
1. You Are What You Love: To Worship Is Human
2. You Might Not Love What You Think: Learning to Read Secular Liturgies
3. The Spirit Meets You Where You Are: Historic Worship for a Postmodern Age
4. What Story Are You In? The Narrative Arc of Formative Christian Worship
5. Guard Your Heart: The Liturgies of Home
6. Teach Your Children Well: Learning by Heart
7. You Make What You Want: Vocational Liturgies
Epilogue
For Further Reading

Additional information

CIN158743380XVG
9781587433801
158743380X
You Are What You Love - The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K. A. Smith
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Baker Publishing Group
20160405
224
N/A
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