{"product_id":"the-scandal-of-holiness-renewing-your-imagination-in-the-company-of-literary-saints-9781587435249","title":"The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 Award of Merit (Culture \u0026amp; the Arts)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSilver Book Award (Nonfiction - Religion\/Philosophy)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHow do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year's resolutions, vision boards, thirty-day plans, and self-help books often fail to compel us to live differently. We settle for small goals--frugal spending, less yelling at the kids, more time at the gym--but we are called to something far greater. We are created to be holy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson explains that learning to hear the call of holiness requires cultivating a new imagination--one rooted in the act of reading. Learning to read with eyes attuned to the saints who populate great works of literature moves us toward holiness, where God opens up a way of living that extends far beyond what we can conjure for ourselves. Literature has the power to show us what a holy life looks like, and these depictions often scandalize even as they shape our imagination. As such, careful reading becomes a sort of countercultural spiritual discipline.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book includes devotionals, prayers, wisdom from the saints, and more to help individuals and groups cultivate a saintly imagination. Foreword by Lauren F. Winner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Hooten Wilson \u003c\/b\u003e(PhD, Baylor University) is the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. She has written for The Gospel Coalition, \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Christian Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComment \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, and \u003ci\u003eEnglewood Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and is the author of several books, including the \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award Winner \u003ci\u003eGiving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky\u003c\/i\u003e. Wilson speaks regularly around the country and has connections with a broad array of reading communities and classical education forums.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brazos Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554187874578,"sku":"9781587435249","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bc19a3a3-4d18-4e43-ba5f-17ed035c6355.jpg?v=1731709536","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-scandal-of-holiness-renewing-your-imagination-in-the-company-of-literary-saints-9781587435249","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}