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What is attention? How do we use it? And why does it matter? In an age of distraction-in which we feel overrun by attention-diverting devices-these questions are as important as ever. While scientists and philosophers have explored these questions in part, theologians have largely ignored them. Despite this, the Christian theological tradition contains many rich resources for pursuing answers to these questions. Theological Attention attempts to mine resources from this tradition-and psychology and philosophy-to answer them. In the first part of the book, Theological Attention explores what attention is. Though the aim is to develop a fresh way of thinking about our attention called

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Derek King (Ph.D., University of St Andrews) is the scholar-in-residence at Lewis House. In addition to several articles on theology and philosophy of religion, he has published two books on Christian theology, The Church and the Problem of Divine Hiddenness and Faith Without Belief.

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