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"""Half a century ago I sat in the lectures of Josef Pieper in Munster/Westphalia. You could buy his book, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, in drugstores, yet in those heady activist days, only a handful of students attended his long, learned lectures. But maybe the worm of history has turned! Jeffrey Crittenden's book makes one think so--and gladly!"" --Douglas John Hall, professor emeritus of theology, McGill University ""Jeffrey Crittenden's book opens up a whole new 'window' through which we can view the earliest Christian communities. Until now, 'leisure studies' has never figured on the horizon of New Testament/Early Christian studies. This book demonstrates that how the first followers of Jesus viewed leisure is an important insight into their discipleship and practice--and ours."" --Thomas O'Loughlin, professor emeritus of historical theology, University of Nottingham ""In the skilled hands of Jeffrey Crittenden, leisure becomes something surprising and brilliant. It is not just free time, it is an attitude towards life, a transformational way of being, the product of thoughtful decisions about how we want to live. Most importantly, from a Christian perspective, it is a resurrection activity, centered around a meal to which all are invited by Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to live in true community, one with another."" ―Paul Scott Wilson, professor emeritus of homiletics, College of Victoria University, University of Toronto ""In an age when we badly need to recover of a good theology of work and leisure, Jeffrey Crittenden's Leisure Resurrected takes us back to the early centuries of Christianity to seek alternative insights and recover views from a variety of settings, particularly liturgy. This excellent book challenges us and offers ways in which we can re-examine a theology of leisure."" --Robert Gibbons, professor of Eastern Christianity, Graduate Theological Union ""Half a century ago I sat in the lectures of Josef Pieper in Munster/Westphalia. You could buy his book, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, in drugstores, yet in those heady activist days, only a handful of students attended his long, learned lectures. But maybe the worm of history has turned! Jeffrey Crittenden's book makes one think so--and gladly!"" --Douglas John Hall, professor emeritus of theology, McGill University ""Jeffrey Crittenden's book opens up a whole new 'window' through which we can view the earliest Christian communities. Until now, 'leisure studies' has never figured on the horizon of New Testament/Early Christian studies. This book demonstrates that how the first followers of Jesus viewed leisure is an important insight into their discipleship and practice--and ours."" --Thomas O'Loughlin, professor emeritus of historical theology, University of Nottingham ""In the skilled hands of Jeffrey Crittenden, leisure becomes something surprising and brilliant. It is not just free time, it is an attitude towards life, a transformational way of being, the product of thoughtful decisions about how we want to live. Most importantly, from a Christian perspective, it is a resurrection activity, centered around a meal to which all are invited by Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to live in true community, one with another."" ―Paul Scott Wilson, professor emeritus of homiletics, College of Victoria University, University of Toronto ""In an age when we badly need to recover of a good theology of work and leisure, Jeffrey Crittenden's Leisure Resurrected takes us back to the early centuries of Christianity to seek alternative insights and recover views from a variety of settings, particularly liturgy. This excellent book challenges us and offers ways in which we can re-examine a theology of leisure."" --Robert Gibbons, professor of Eastern Christianity, Graduate Theological Union"

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Jeff Crittenden is an assistant professor of Homiletics at Huron University in London, Ontario, the senior minister of Metropolitan United Church in London, Ontario, and the founder and director of the Centre for Practical Theology (Canada).

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