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James K.A. Smith

Whose Kuyper? Which Inheritance?

James K.A. Smith In certain sectors of North American Protestantism — sectors, I would say, that seem to have disproportional influence on public discussions —

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A Peculiar People

I recently returned to Canada for a two-week sojourn to teach at the University of Toronto. This was a homecoming of sorts—to my “home and

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Writing (and) Theology

There’s no dearth of publishing in Christian theology. To the contrary, an expanding universe of theological publishers seems to churn out more and more books,

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Making Sense of Church

During the heat of the 2008 United States presidential election, journalist Bill Bishop offered a tome that helped explain why the lines of demarcation between

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Thinking Biblically About Culture

There is a subtle irony in the fact that a book by a liberal theologian has so thoroughly suffused contemporary evangelical selfunderstand ng. H. Richard

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The Last Prophet of Leviathan

James K.A. Smith It would be unfortunate if Lilla’s The Stillborn God got lost in the shuffle of the burgeoning industryof Theocracy A larmists, Inc.

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How to Get Your Hands Dirty

In his review of Anxious About Empire (Perspectives, May 2005), William Katerberg charitably represents the stance of Jean Bethke Elshtain who scolds those Christians not

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Working At Rest

INTRODUCTION There is one thing for which I am regularly (and justly) scolded by my wife: I just don’t know how to rest. Far too

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