How to Inhabit Time, James K. A. Smith
How to Inhabit Time, James K. A. Smith
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How to Inhabit Time
Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now

Author: James K. A. Smith

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022

Synopsis

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 twenty-first 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.

About James K. A. Smith

James K. A. Smith 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wagner

There are few contemporary authors that I will pick up just about anything they write. What Jamie Smith has done in How to Inhabit Time is truly phenomenal, demonstrating a really mature and fully orbed work. It is the most personal, and cross-disciplinary project I have read from him. Part memoir,......more

Goodreads review by Adam

Summary: Framed as three meditations on Ecclesiastes, Smith wants us to pay attention to our presence in time as part of an embrace of our humanity.  James KA Smith has greatly influenced me over the years. Desiring the Kingdom helped me think about how culture forms us and how we need to pay attenti......more

Goodreads review by Brian

I've got to have two dozen quoted insights stored away from this relatively short book. If you are on the fence, given a few minutes to his pair of appearances with the Veritas Forum podcast, and I think you will be sold.......more

Goodreads review by Joshua

A solid exploration on the spiritual significance of time. I found the contents of the book quite refreshing as time is an abstract topic with tons of applications. It's something I kind of just live through, not thinking about too much. The book provides a relatively sound perspective on time which......more

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