How to Inhabit Time
Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2022]
Format: Book
Description: xv, 189 pages ; 23 cm
Many Christians live a faith that is "nowhen." They are disconnected from the past or imagine they are somehow "above" the flux of history, as if every generation starts with a clean state. They lack an awareness of time and the effects of history--both personal and collective--and thus are naive about current issues, prone to nostalgia, or fixated on the end times and other doomsday versions of the future. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith explains that we must reckon with the past in order to discern the present and have hope for the future. Integrating popular culture, biblical exposition, and meditation, he helps us develop a sense of "temporal awareness" that is attuned to the texture of history, the vicissitudes of life, and the tempo of the Spirit. Smith shows that awakening to the spiritual significance of time is crucial for orienting faith in the twenty-first century.
Contents:
Introduction: When are we? The spiritual significance of timekeeping -- Meditation 1: Ecclesiastes 3:9-15 -- Creatures of time: how to face our forgetting -- A history of the human heart: how to learn from ghosts -- Meditation 2: Ecclesiastes 7:10-14 -- The sacred folds of kairos: how (not) to be contemporary -- Embrace the ephemeral: how to love what you'll lose -- Meditation 3: Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:8 -- Seasons of the heart: how to inhabit your now -- On not living ahead of time: how to sing Maranatha! -- Epilogue: history in heaven.
Subjects:
Bible. Ecclesiastes, III -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Time -- Biblical teaching.
Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Faith development.
Bible. Ecclesiastes, III -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Time -- Biblical teaching.
Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Faith development.
ISBN:
9781587435232
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Includes bibliographical references.