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14How (not) to be secular: reading Charles TaylorWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2014.How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present -- a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. Jamie Smith's book is a compact field guide to Taylor'…Read more
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13Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (3): 383-385. 2000.
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12A Response to CriticsStudies in Christian Ethics 32 (1): 129-134. 2019.The author responds to critics of Awaiting the King, addressing especially questions about Augustinian liberalism and the church’s complicity in, and responsibility for, disordered liturgies, raising fundamental questions about the relationship between church and world.
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12Is There a Sabbath for Thought? Between Religion and Philosophy–By William DesmondModern Theology 24 (1): 146-149. 2008.
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96 Faith and the Conditions of Possibility of Experience: A Response to Kevin HartIn Kevin Hart & Barbara Wall (eds.), The Experience of God: A Postmodern Response, Fordham University Press. pp. 87-92. 2022.
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9The Time of LanguageProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 72 185-199. 1998.
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9The Nicene option: an incarnational phenomenologyBaylor University Press. 2021.A collection of essays spanning Smith's career that examines the prospects for a renewed continental philosophy of religion, while making a constructive case for Smith's own vision of the "Nicene option" and incarnational theology as conversation partner.
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8Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship WorksBaker Academic. 2013.2013 Word Guild Award (Academic) How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received Desiring the Kingdom. He helps us understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit formation and how liturgical formation--both "secular" and Christian--a…Read more
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8The past several decades have seen a renaissance in Christian philosophy, led by the work of Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, William Alston, Eleonore Stump, and others. In the spirit of Plantinga s famous manifesto, Advice to Christian Philosophers, James K. A. Smith here offers not only advice to Pentecostal philosophers but also some Pentecostal advice to Christian philosophers. In this inaugural Pentecostal Manifestos volume Smith begins from the conviction that implicit in Pentecosta…Read more
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7The End of EnclavesFaith and Philosophy 26 (4): 457-461. 2009.In reply to Benson’s response, I agree that we should be seeking the dissolution of all enclaves in philosophy of religion—whether continental or analytic. But I continue to suggest that continental philosophy of religion bears special burdens in this respect.
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6Who's afraid of relativism?: community, contingency, and creaturehoodBaker Academic. 2014.Following his successful Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? leading Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, and Robert Brandom. Many Christians view relativism as the antithesis of absolute truth and take it to be the antithesis of the gospel. Smith argues that this reaction is a symptom of…Read more
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3On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless HeartsBrazos Press. 2019.★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augusti…Read more
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The Crossing of the Visible (edited book)Stanford University Press. 2003.Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a central topic of concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. For the question of painting is, at its heart, a question of visibility—of appearance. As such, the painting is a privileged case of the phenomenon; the painting becomes an index for investigating the conditions of appearance—or what Marion describes as "phenomenality" in general. In _The Crossing of the Visible_, Marion takes up just such a project. The natural outgrowth of his earl…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |
Augustine |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
Pragmatism |
Aesthetics |