Seeing God in the Ordinary: A Theology of the Everyday [Paperback]

Michael Frost (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2000

Recipient of the 1999 Christian Book of the Year award in Australia, Seeing God in the Ordinary is an appeal to recover the place of the imagination in the Christian life, to rediscover the use of metaphor in a prose-flattened world, to see God in the ordinary. By a careful examination of film, literature, and other aspects of contemporary culture—as well as the Gospels—the author argues for a robust faith that embraces human experience in all its forms, that is open to the intuitive, and that has the capacity to fill us with wonder and astonishment.

“This book helps us to hear God not so much in the whirlwind but in the still, small voice of the ordinary, everyday moments of our lives.”
—Ken Gire, author of Windows of the Soul, Moments with the Savior, and The Reflective Life

“In the midst of the current flood of books on Christian spirituality, Frost explores the way in which the great themes of Christian faith are signaled and traced by specific reference points in culture. The outcome is a book not for a quick read, but for a slow, delighted pondering. Frost’s particular interest is in artistic expression in poetry, film, and narrative that opens the reader and ponderer to freshness. Who would have thought that Kafka, Keets, and Harvey Keitel could show up together, but they do here. Frost has produced a probe of a world ‘not-yet-holy,’ but being made so by the presence of God’s holiness in the day-to-dayness of our lives. A suggestive read!”
—Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, author of Finally Comes the Poet and The Psalms and the Life of Faith

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About the Author

Michael Frost is a writer and popular educator and teaches at Morling College, Sydney, Australia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers; Revised edition (April 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565635140
• ISBN-13: 978-1565635142
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,833,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Frost (1961 - ) is an internationally recognised missiologist and one of the leading voices in the missional church movement. His books are required reading in colleges and seminaries around the world and he is much sought after as an international conference speaker. Frost is the Vice Principal of Morling College and the founding Director of the Tinsley Institute, a mission study centre located at Morling College in Sydney, Australia.

He is the author or editor of ten popular Christian books, the most recent of which are the highly successful and award-winning The Shaping of Things to Come (2003, co-authored with colleague Alan Hirsch), Exiles (2006) and Re:Jesus (2009). These books explore a missiological framework for the church in the postmodern era. Frost's books have been translated into German, Korean and Spanish.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outside of the Box., May 22, 2003

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This review is from: Seeing God in the Ordinary: A Theology of the Everyday (Paperback)

Too often in the modern Church, there is a message preached about the differences between the "secular" and the "spiritual" that verges on Gnosticism. This should not be. God is bigger than we can ever imagine and too often we miss out on seeing God because He doesn't fit the little boxes we've built for Him.

SEEING GOD IN THE ORDINARY is a book that attempts to correct the fallacy of the semi-dualism being preached in many churches today. It is a book that illustrates just how big God really is and that the God who performed so many marvelous deeds in the Bible, is alive and well today working in and through the "common" and "mundane" things of life. Life truly is beautiful if we would only open our eyes and see.

5.0 out of 5 stars another great book from Mike Frost, September 1, 2006

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Anne Gallivan (Boston MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seeing God in the Ordinary: A Theology of the Everyday (Paperback)

I love everything Mike Frost writes, and this is no exception. Frost does a great job of encouraging his readers to find God in the everyday joys of life.

This is a short book, great for a quick and enjoyable encouragement.

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars read this book, September 28, 2000

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This is a landmark book. Read it now!