Religion Quotes by James K.A. Smith

11 Religion quotes by James K.A. Smith

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James K.A. Smith’s thoughts on Religion come through in these eleven concise statements, offering a snapshot of his philosophical bent. The brevity of the set makes it easy to grasp the core of his argument.

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“The doubter’s doubt is faith; his temptation is belief, and it is a temptation that has not been entirely quelled, even in…

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“Discipleship, we might say, is a way to curate your heart, to be attentive to and intentional about what you love.”

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“Our sanctification is more like a Weight Watchers program than listening to a book on tape.”

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“Discipleship and spiritual formation are less about erecting an edifice of knowledge than they are a matter of developing a Christian know-how…

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“Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new…

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“All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or…

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“Worship works from the top down, you might say. In worship we don’t just come to show God our devotion and give…

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“Being a disciple of Jesus is not primarily a matter of getting the right ideas and doctrines and beliefs into your head…

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“Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is “incredulity toward metanarratives” is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to…

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“If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be…

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“By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious…

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“Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into…

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“So it is precisely our allergy to repetition in worship that has undercut the counterformative power of Christian worship—because all kinds of secular liturgies…

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“too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.5”

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“Formative Christian worship paints a picture of the beauty of the Lord--and a vision of the shalom he desires for creation--in a way that…

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“Too much of our cultural analysis is rooted in thinking-thingism: we scan culture, listening for “messages,” bent on rooting out “false” teachings. But if…

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“We confess knowledge without certainty, truth without objectivity.”

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“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into…

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“Discipleship, we might say, is a way to curate your heart, to be attentive to and intentional about what you love.”

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“Your deepest desire,” he observes, “is the one manifested by your daily life and habits.”6 This is because our action—our doing—bubbles up from our…

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“Foucault. The seemingly disturbing, even Nietzschean claim that “power is knowledge” should push us to realize what MTV learned long ago: (a) the cultural…

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“The doubter’s doubt is faith; his temptation is belief, and it is a temptation that has not been entirely quelled, even in a secular…

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“Worship works from the top down, you might say. In worship we don’t just come to show God our devotion and give him our…

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“While formally or structurally speaking, there are mechanisms of discipline operative in both the convent and the prison, in both the factory and the…

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“Antoine de Saint-Exupéry captures this well: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them…

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“Because of this Christian materialism, a catholic postmodernism (or postmodern catholicity) affirms sacramentality on two levels. On the one hand, it affirms a general…

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