Recapturing the Wonder, Mike Cosper
Recapturing the Wonder, Mike Cosper
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Recapturing the Wonder
Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World

Author: Mike Cosper

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 5 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/03/2021


Synopsis

15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year—Inspirational

Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017

When we're young, it's easy to believe in the supernatural, the mysterious, the enchanted. But as we grow older, we learn to be more "rational" and more confident that reality is merely what we can see. Even as Christians who believe in the resurrection, we live as if miracles and magic have been drained from the world.

As Mike Cosper wrestled with his own disillusionment, he found writers, thinkers, and artists like Hannah Arendt, Charles Taylor, James K. A. Smith, and David Foster Wallace whose words and ideas reassured him that he was not alone. And he discovered ancient and modern disciplines that shape a Christian way of life and awaken the possibility of living again in an enchanted world.

Exquisitely written with thoughtful practices woven throughout, this book will feed your soul and help you recapture the wonder of your Christian walk.

About Mike Cosper

Mike Cosper is the executive director of Harbor Media, a non-profit media company serving Christians in a post-Christian world. He served for sixteen years as a pastor at Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and is the author of Recapturing the Wonder, The Stories We Tell, and Rhythms of Grace. He lives with his family in Louisville, Kentucky.
 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on September 22, 2017

Quite possibly the most necessary book I've read all year. It met me directly where I am--a little cynical, a little skeptical, too easily distracted & entranced by the shiny and shallow, and sometimes too quick to dismiss ordinary gestures. I can't count the number of times his words echoed things......more

Goodreads review by Kris on August 17, 2024

Hey, look, another modern American evangelical discovered that liturgy is valuable. Welcome to the group. Recommends certain practices surrounding prayer, liturgy, meditation, fasting, feasting, and contemplation of beauty. Would be a good intro course book for a freshman college class, or a cross-den......more

Goodreads review by Cat Caird on June 02, 2017

This has probably been my favourite book this year. Mike Cosper explores the ways in which our society is disenchanted, no longer believing in mystery or the supernatural and how that has dripped into our church and our beliefs. He implores us to bring back the wonder and awe of Christianity and hel......more

Goodreads review by David on October 22, 2018

Every now and then I get rather cynical about the world. Recently I had been reading some Jacques Ellul, rethinking some ideas from Charles Taylor and just observing our culture. I concluded that we were all so secular, even we Christians, and there was nothing we could do about it. Its the world we......more