Joy Renewed: A Biblical Prescription for Rediscovering Joy in Late Modernity
Countless Americans suffer from chronic joylessness through meaningless work and the loss of significant human connection. Often called an age of despair, late modernity desperately needs joy, and although Christians are the ones who have access to it, many have tragically forgotten how to find it. Joy Renewed takes a hard look at what afflicts Western society, including Christians, and provides a reorientation of life that opens the heart to God's good design. Fischer and Kanana bring together truth from biblical narratives with glittering insights from the experience of East African suffering to dissect contemporary social ills and offer a layered prescription for rediscovering joy.
“Joy is not a common descriptor for human lives. But this loss
is not irreversible. In Joy Renewed, Benjamin Fischer and
Cedric Kanana reveal the individual steps that comprise the journey
to joy. I commend this book to everyone seeking to recover their
joy.”
—Todd Hunter, Anglican Bishop, author of Deep Peace:
Finding Calm in a World of Conflict and Anxiety
“The approach in this book is soundly biblical, and it is
also laced with practical examples, often from the personal
experiences of the authors. They carefully analyze what lies behind
contemporary attitudes in society, such as individualism, which act
as hindrances to experiencing joy. The result is a profoundly
enriching and interesting book on means to joy prescribed in the
Bible which have been tried, tested, and found to be true, and have
served God’s people for millennia.”
—Ajith Fernando, author of The Call to Joy and Pain
“Joy is not a common descriptor for human lives. But this loss
is not irreversible. In Joy Renewed, Benjamin Fischer and
Cedric Kanana reveal the individual steps that comprise the journey
to joy. I commend this book to everyone seeking to recover their
joy.”
—Todd Hunter, Anglican Bishop, author of Deep Peace:
Finding Calm in a World of Conflict and Anxiety
“The approach in this book is soundly biblical, and it is
also laced with practical examples, often from the personal
experiences of the authors. They carefully analyze what lies behind
contemporary attitudes in society, such as individualism, which act
as hindrances to experiencing joy. The result is a profoundly
enriching and interesting book on means to joy prescribed in the
Bible which have been tried, tested, and found to be true, and have
served God’s people for millennia.”
—Ajith Fernando, author of The Call to Joy and Pain
- Title: Joy Renewed: A Biblical Prescription for Rediscovering Joy in Late Modernity
- Authors: Cedric Kanana, Benjamin Fischer
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666715583, 9781666715569, 9781666715576, 1666715581, 1666715565, 1666715573
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666715583
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T19:53:03Z
Benjamin Fischer has a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and
is a missionary priest of the Anglican Church of Rwanda. He serves
as rector of Christ the Redeemer (ACNA) in Nampa, Idaho, and
associate professor of literature at Northwest Nazarene University.
He is the translator and editor of Being a Pastor: Pastoral
Treatises of John Wycliffe (2021) and co-author of Dying in
Islam, Rising in Christ (2018).
Cedric Kanana has an MA from Uganda Christian University and is a
pastor of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, Kigali Diocese, where he
leads the parish of Kanyinya and serves as a chaplain in Kigali
Central Prison. He is an internationally recognized evangelist and
is a regular guest on national television and radio programs. He is
the author of Dying in Islam, Rising in Christ
(2018).