On the Road With Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality For Restless Hearts
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Award-winning author James K A Smith brings 'the patron saint of restless hearts' Saint Augustine to life for 21st-Century readers. Discover how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks hope into the struggles of contemporary life, covering topics like ambition, sex, parenthood, friendship...
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Award-winning author James K A Smith brings 'the patron saint of restless hearts' Saint Augustine to life for 21st-Century readers. Discover how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks hope into the struggles of contemporary life, covering topics like ambition, sex, parenthood, friendship and death.
- Koorong
Named One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019 by Publishers Weekly
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 Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way.
"What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.
- Publisher
"In this engrossing reflection on the human spiritual journey, philosophy professor Smith (You Are What You Love) uses the fourth-century Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine, as a guide for considering complex, timeless issues... Seeking Augustine's wisdom on questions - such as 'what do I want when I want to be noticed?' or 'to belong?' or 'to be rational?' - Smith illuminates Augustine's certainty that people find freedom and truth when they find themselves in God's story. By following Augustine's model and sharing his own faith journey, Smith makes Augustine's guidance accessible to a new generation of seekers."
- Publishers Weekly Review.
Publishers Weekly starred review Named One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019 by Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Finalist for Religion 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 Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.
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PRODUCT DETAIL
- Catalogue Code 549817
- Product Code 9781587434464
- ISBNÂ 1587434466
- EANÂ 9781587434464
- Pages 256
- Department Academic
- Category Classic
- Sub-Category St Augustine
- Publisher Baker Book House
- Publication Date Aug 2019
- Sales Rank 1142
- Dimensions 229 x 152mm
- Weight 0.510kg
James K A Smith
James K. A. Smith (Ph.D., University of Villanova) is associate professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Previously he taught at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He is editor of In the Twilight of Western Thought in the Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd, and he has written numerous articles on philosophy and religion, and has a remarkable grasp of Post-modern hermeneutics and interpretation.
This is reflected in his publications Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church (Church and Postmodern Culture Series: Baker Academic, 2006); Jacques Derrida: Live Theory (Continuum, 2005), Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology (Baker Academic Press, 2004). Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation (Radical Orthodoxy Series: Routledge, 2002); Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition (Bakerbooks, 2010) and The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic (InterVarsity Press, 2000).
He is preparing four volumes The Violence of Finitude: Derrida and the Logic of Determination; Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Learning and the Formation of Radical Disciples; The Devil Reads Derrida - and Other Essays on the University, the Church, Politics, and the Arts and Thinking in Tongues: Elements of a Pentecostal Worldview (Pentecostal Manifestos Series; Eerdmans, 2008).
Koorong -Editorial Review.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Orientation
- Heart On The Run
- How To Hit The Road
- Augustine Our Contemporary
- How To Find Yourself
- A Refugee Spirituality
- How To Live Between
- Detours On The Way To Myself
- Freedom
- How To Escape
- Ambition
- How To Aspire
- Sex
- How To Connect
- Mothers
- How To Be Dependent
- Friendship
- How To Belong
- Enlightenment
- How To Believe
- Story
- How To Be A Character
- Justice
- How To Protest
- Fathers
- How To Be Broken
- Death
- How To Hope
- Homecoming
- Index