Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 21 results for “james ka smith”
Skip side bar filters

  • Evolution and the Fall

    Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, James K. A. Smith ...
    What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates—as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest—then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address ... Read more

    $26.99 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

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

    $17.99 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

    $19.99 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

  • 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

  • Becoming Neighbors

    The Common Good Made Local

    by Amar D. Peterman ...
    The work of cultivating the common good starts in your own neighborhood.In Becoming Neighbors, Amar D. Peterman explores how the common good can be cultivated through the practice of neighbor love. And he encourages Christians to join their neighbors at what he calls "the shared table"—a space where communities gather across differences to work towards the flourishing of the whole.Within every ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $84.99 USD

  • Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear

    by Matthew Kaemingk ...
    An alternative, uniquely Christian response to the growing global challenges of deep religious differenceIn the last fifty years, millions of Muslims have migrated to Europe and North America. Their arrival has ignited a series of fierce public debates on both sides of the Atlantic about religious freedom and tolerance, terrorism and security, gender and race, and much more. How can Christians ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    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