Think The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

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ISBN: 9781433523182

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Authors: John Piper, Mark A. Noll

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John Piper offers a pastor's perspective on the life of the mind in his challenge to the church to think hard for the glory of God. This book will help Christians think about thinking. Focusing on the life of the mind helps us to know God better, love him more, and care for the world. Along with an emphasis on emotions and the experience of God, we also need to practice careful thinking about God. Piper contends that "thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God." So how are we to maintain a healthy balance of mind and heart, thinking and feeling? Piper urges us to think for the glory of God. He demonstrates from Scripture that glorifying God with our minds and hearts is not…

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List price: $18.99
Publisher: Crossway
Publication date: 3/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Mark A. Noll is McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is author or editor of 35 books, including the award-winning America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln.



Foreword



Introduction


Clarifying the Aim of the Book



My Pilgrimage



Deep Help from a Dead Friend


Clarifying the Meaning of Thinking



Reading as Thinking


Coming to Faith through Thinking



Mental Adultery Is No Escape



Rational Gospel, Spiritual Light


Clarifying the Meaning of Loving God



Love for God: Treasuring God with All Your Mind


Facing the Challenge of Relativism



Jesus Meets the Relativists



The Immorality of Relativism


Facing the Challenge of Anti-intellectualism



Unhelpful Anti-intellectual Impulses in Our History



You Have Hidden These Things from the Wise and Understanding



In the Wisdom of God, the World Did Not Know God through Wisdom


Finding a Humble Way of Knowing



The Knowledge That Loves



All Scholarship Is for the Love of God and Man


Encouraging Thinkers and Non-thinkers


Conclusion: A Final Plea



ï¿½The Earth Is the Lord'sï¿½: The Supremacy of Christ in Christian Learning (Biblical Foundations for Bethlehem College and Seminary)



The Student, the Fish, and Agassiz


Acknowledgments


General Index


Scripture Index


Desiring God: Note on Resources