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We live in a secular age, a world dominated by science and technology. Increasing numbers of us don't believe in God anymore. We don't expect miracles. We've grown up and left those fairy tales behind, culturally and personally.

Yet five hundred years ago the world was very much enchanted. It was a world where God existed and the devil was real. It was a world full of angels and demons. It was a world of holy wells and magical eels. But since the Protestant Reformation and the beginning of the Enlightenment, the world—in the West, at least—has become increasingly disenchanted.

While this might be taken as evidence of a crisis of belief, Richard Beck argues it's actually a crisis of attention. God hasn't gone anywhere, but we've lost our capacity to see God.

The rising tide of disenchantment has profoundly changed our religious imaginations and led to a loss of the holy expectation that we can be interrupted by the sacred and divine. But it doesn't have to be this way. Hunting Magic Eels shows us that with attention and an intentional, cultivated capacity to experience God as a living, vital presence in our lives, we can cultivate an enchanted faith in a skeptical age. This new paperback edition includes a foreword from Sean Palmer as well as updated content throughout.

ISBN-13: 9781506487670

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: 1517 Media

Publication Date: 03-05-2024

Pages: 250

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.00(d)

Richard Beck is professor of psychology at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, where he also lives. He is a popular blogger and speaker. He is the author of several books, most recently Trains, Jesus, and Murder: The Gospel according to Johnny Cash and Stranger God: Meeting Jesus in Disguise. His published research also covers topics as diverse as the psychology of profanity and why Christian bookstore art is so bad. Beck leads a Bible study each week for inmates at a maximum-security prison.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Strange Sights 1

Part 1 Attention Blindness

1 The Slow Death of God 19

2 Welcome to the Ache 41

Part 2 Enchanted Faith

3 Eccentric Experiences 65

4 Living in a One-Story Universe 83

5 The Good Catastrophe 91

Part 3 Enchanted Christianities

6 Liturgical Enchantments 119

7 Contemplative Enchantments 129

8 Charismatic Enchantments 147

9 Celtic Enchantments 167

Part 4 Discerning the Spirits

10 Enchantment Shifting 199

11 God's Enchantment 217

Epilogue: Hunting Magic Eels 229

Acknowledgments 235