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Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual Practice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781587435256)
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x"A timely and accessible primer."--Christian Century
What if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but a spiritual practice that deepens our faith?
In Reading for the Love of God, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson does just that--and then shows readers how to reap the spiritual benefits of reading. She argues that the simple act of reading can help us learn to pray well, love our neighbor, be contemplative, practice humility, and disentangle ourselves from contemporary idols.
Accessible and engaging, this guide outlines several ways Christian thinkers--including Augustine, Julian of Norwich, Frederick Douglass, and Dorothy L. Sayers--approached the act of reading. It also includes useful special features such as suggested reading lists, guided practices to approaching texts, and tips for meditating on specific texts or Bible passages. By learning to read for the love of God, readers will discover not only a renewed love of reading but also a new, vital spiritual practice to deepen their walk with God.
Author: Jessica Hooten Wilson
ISBN-10: 158743525X
ISBN-13: 9781587435256
Publisher: Brazos Press
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2023
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d
What if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but a spiritual practice that deepens our faith?
In Reading for the Love of God, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson does just that--and then shows readers how to reap the spiritual benefits of reading. She argues that the simple act of reading can help us learn to pray well, love our neighbor, be contemplative, practice humility, and disentangle ourselves from contemporary idols.
Accessible and engaging, this guide outlines several ways Christian thinkers--including Augustine, Julian of Norwich, Frederick Douglass, and Dorothy L. Sayers--approached the act of reading. It also includes useful special features such as suggested reading lists, guided practices to approaching texts, and tips for meditating on specific texts or Bible passages. By learning to read for the love of God, readers will discover not only a renewed love of reading but also a new, vital spiritual practice to deepen their walk with God.
Author: Jessica Hooten Wilson
ISBN-10: 158743525X
ISBN-13: 9781587435256
Publisher: Brazos Press
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2023
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d
By Jessica Hooten Wilson
xJessica Hooten Wilson (PhD, Baylor University) is the inaugural Visiting Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She previously taught at the University of Dallas. Wilson is the author of The Scandal of Holiness, Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky (winner of a 2018 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award), and two books on Walker Percy. She speaks around the world on topics as varied as Russian novelists, Catholic thinkers, and Christian ways of reading.
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