Reading for the Love of God
How to Read as a Spiritual Practice
$41.38
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2025
Summary
“A timely and accessible primer.” – Christian Century
What if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but also a spiritual practice that deepens our faith?
In Reading for the Love of God, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson does just that–and then shows readers how to reap the spiritual benefits of reading. She argues that the simple act of reading can help us learn to pray well, love our neighbor, be c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781587437090 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1587437090 |
| Author: | Jessica Hooten Wilson |
| Publisher: | Baker Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Jessica Hooten Wilson
Jessica Hooten Wilson (PhD, Baylor University) is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is the author or editor of eight books, including The Scandal of Holiness (winner of a Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit), Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?, and Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky (winner of a 2018 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award). Hooten Wilson speaks around the world on topics as varied as Russian novelists, Catholic thinkers, and Christian ways of reading.
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