As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us--politic…
How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume-- but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications such as The Atlantic and Ha…
"How to think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume-- but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications such as The Atlantic and H…
As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us--politic…
[This book] is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume-- but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications such as The Atlantic and Har…
The Book of Common Prayer: a biography
by Jacobs, Alan
fromLives of Great Religious Books
The Book of Common Prayer: a biography
by Jacobs, Alan
fromLives of Great Religious Books
"While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible…
The book of common prayer: a biography
by Jacobs, Alan
fromLives of Great Religious Books
The Book of Common Prayer: a biography
by Jacobs, Alan
fromLives of Great Religious Books
The Book of Common Prayer - from its beginnings as a means of social and political control in the England of Henry VIII to its worldwide presence today - became a venerable work whose cadences express the heart of religious life for many.
The Book of Common Prayer: a biography
by Jacobs, Alan
fromLives of Great Religious Books
While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here," or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible …
The book of common prayer: a biography
by Jacobs, Alan
fromLives of Great Religious Books
The Book of Common Prayer: a biography
by Jacobs, Alan
fromLives of Great Religious Books
"While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible…