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

Written by James K.A. Smith

Narrated by Michael Page

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ChristianAudio.com
• Release date: Sep 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781545922309

James K.A. Smith

James K. A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin College where he holds the Gary & Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology & Worldview. The author of many books, including the award-winning Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? and Desiring the Kingdom, Smith is a Cardus senior fellow and serves as editor of Comment magazine.      

Reviews for How to Inhabit Time

[Sean Davidson · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book demonstrates God’s redemption of the past. Good read

[Kris Samons · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Once again Jamie Smith has delivered an encouraging and thoughtful offering. This short book encapsulates much of what I’ve read of Smith’s over the years, especially for practical living in our “when” of history.