Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age

Bys: Griffis, Rachel B., Ooms, Julie, de Smith Roberts, Rachel M.

This book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth.

The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural vices--distraction, hostility, and consumerism--that impact the possibility of formative reading. Informed by James K. A. Smith's work on "the spiritual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 154096695X
• ISBN13: 9781540966957
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"