HOW TO INHABIT TIME:
Understanding the past, facing the future, living
faithfully now
By James K. A. Smith
Brazos Press. 208 pages. £14.99
ISBN 978 1 587 435 911
James K. A. Smith is, in many respects, a rare voice among philosophers. His books are often aimed not at the ivory tower of academic discourse, but at men and women in local churches.
No stranger to incorporating personal anecdotes into his writing, in How to Inhabit Time Smith dig deep into the pain of his own past, bringing readers into a place of vulnerability with him. This is by no means a dusty volume of philosophical musings. Rather, in Smith’s own words, ‘the hope of this book is to occasion an awakening, a dawning of awareness of what it means to be the sorts of creatures who dwell in the flux of time’s flow, who swim in the river of history.’
