How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now - Softcover

Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587435918 ISBN 13: 9781587435911

Publisher: Baker Books, 2022

Synopsis

'This incisive and eloquent volume will expand readers' minds.'--Publishers Weekly

Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are 'above' history, immune to it, as if self-starters from clean slates in every generation. They suffer from a lack of awareness of time and the effects of history--both personal and collective--and thus are naive about current issues and fixated on the end times.

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 21st century. He encourages us to cultivate the spiritual discipline of memento tempori, a temporal awareness of the Spirit's presence--indebted to a past, oriented toward the future, and faithful in the present. To gain spiritual appreciation for our mortality. To synchronize our heart-clocks with the tempo of the Spirit, which changes in the different seasons of life. Integrating popular culture, biblical exposition, and meditation, Smith provides insights for pastoring, counseling, spiritual formation, politics, and public life.

Contents
Introduction: When Are We? The Spiritual
Significance of Timekeeping Meditation
1: Ecclesiastes 3:9-15 1. Creatures of Time: How to Face Our Forgetting
2. A History of the Human Heart: How to Learn from Ghosts Meditation 2: Ecclesiastes 7:10-14
3. The Sacred Folds of Kairos: How (Not) to Be Contemporary
4. Embrace the Ephemeral: How to Love What You'll Lose Meditation 3: Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:8
5. Seasons of the Heart: How to Inhabit Your Now 6. On Not Living Ahead of Time: How to Sing Maranatha!
Epilogue: History in Heaven

About this title

About the Author

James K. A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is a popular speaker who has written many books, including On the Road with Saint Augustine, You Are What You Love, Desiring the Kingdom, and Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?--all Christianity Today Book 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 was editor in chief of Comment magazine from 2013 to 2018 and is now editor in chief of Image, a quarterly journal at the intersection of art, faith, and mystery. Smith has written for Christianity Today, the Christian Century, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Washington Post.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baker Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587435918
• ISBN 13: 9781587435911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208