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Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul
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Average Rating:  out of 48 Reviews
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $7.95
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Manufacturer: NavPress Publishing Group
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EAN (European Article Number): 9781576830161
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: J. P. Moreland::Dallas Willard
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Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.01
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Publication Date: 1997-07
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Reading Level: 249
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Description: PREPARE YOUR MIND FOR ACTION The mind plays an important role in Christianity. Unfortunately, many of us leave our minds behind when it comes to our faith. In Love Your God with All Your Mind, J.P. Moreland presents a logical case for the role of the mind in spiritual transformation. He challenges us to develop a Christian mind and to use our intellect to further God's kingdom through evangelism, apologetics, worship, and vocation. "This exploration into the mind of evangelical Christianity is one of the most courageous books of our time. In language that is thoroughly erudite but compassionate, theological but practical, and scriptural but entirely relevant to today, the author presents the deeper significance of Paul's plea to the Christians at Phillipi: 'Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.'" -D. James Kennedy, Ph.D., senior minister, coral Ridge Presbyterian Church "This is more than just another Christian book. It is the wake-up call that the church needs today. God gave us minds for a reason. It is crucial that we become like Christ in the way we think. If we heed J.P.'s words, we can counter the culture in which we live, work, think, and minister." -Josh McDowell, Josh McDowell Ministries "J.P. Moreland exemplifies the Christian mind as it ought to be-tough and analytic, but also generous and caring. Christians who want to develop their minds in the service of Christ couldn't find a better teacher, or a better book for the task." -Phillip E. Johnson, author of Darwin on Trial
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Why You Should Love God With Your Mind |
Date: 2008-10-22 |
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Details: J.P. Moreland's Love Your God with All Your Mind calls evangelical Christians to cultivate the intellect as an act of worship to God. Moreland decries the anti-intellectualism prevalent in the current evangelical climate and encourages Christians to begin actively developing a Christian worldview that can engage and challenge the current philosophies dominating the scientific and academic world.
Love Your God with All Your Mind focuses on three major areas of Christian practice. Moreland begins by exposing the anti-intellectualism of the Church today and the areas in which Christians have deserted intellectual engagement.
Moreland does not leave us with the simple challenge to begin developing a Christian mind; he also shows us what that mature mind looks like. Love Your God describes how a surge of intellectualism will bolster evangelism (providing a basis for serious apologetics [131]), and give Christians the proper ammunition to answer skepticism, scientism and relativism (141-142, 146-148, 150-152).
A third theme running through Moreland's book focuses on the cultivation of the mind as an act of spiritual devotion. Moreland reminds the reader of the Old Testament's teaching about wisdom and knowledge - qualities that come from those devoted to using their minds as the primary vehicle for making contact with God (66-67).
Love Your God with All Your Mind exposes the ways that evangelicalism today falls short of the biblical mandate to cultivate the mind as an act of worship. Moreland offers several solutions, one of which is centered in his emphasis on seeing all of life as integrated. The split between the "sacred" and the "secular" (27-29) is perhaps the most damaging implication of Christianity's anti-intellectual inclination. Moreland correctly perceives that this separation between sacred and secular has served to silence Christian voices in areas of "secular" knowledge. Faith is relegated to the upper sphere of feelings and sentiment with no more authority than someone's personal opinion, whereas facts are seen as "secular," scientific, and not subject to religious critique.
The division between sacred and secular is exacerbated by evangelicalism's emphasis on full-time ministry as the "sacred" calling from God and the subsequent failure to understand secular vocations as also fulfilling divine calling (174-176). In recent years, evangelicals have tried to address this issue. Several books geared to making Christians aware of their religious duties at work have appeared on bookshelves and have sold moderately well. Unfortunately, the biblical understanding of "vocation" has not made its way into the pulpit, so when pastors do address issues of work and occupation, they spend most of their time emphasizing how Christians can do "sacred" activities within their secular fields (evangelism, promoting honesty, starting Bible studies, etc.) rather than teaching them to accomplish their vocations for the glory of God.
Love Your God contains three suggestions that I hope to apply in future ministry. First, I have begun to see all my reading and study as an act of worship (166-169), not just my seminary or devotional reading. Because of this, I have begun the practice of praying after every chapter of every book I read, thanking God for whatever insights I have learned from the book. This includes non-Christian books as well. Secondly, I hope to emphasize in my preaching and teaching that all vocations are a calling from God and are not "secular" or cut off from sacred mandate (177-181). Finally, I believe that worship services should not center only on feelings and sentimental impulse, but on the proper preaching of God's Word and the doctrines contained therein (158-159). Worship is not successful because it provokes feelings of ecstasy in the worshiper, but because it leaves us with a correct picture of our transcendent, personal God.
Love Your God also leaves me with several questions. How do we convince our churches of the need for intellectual engagement? More specifically, how do we stir up in our people a love for study and reflection? How does the Church's existence help or hinder the apologetic nature of our evangelistic efforts? How can we compete with the onslaught of entertainment choices in our efforts to cultivate the Christian mind? Should we use entertainment as a springboard to further discussion?
J.P. Moreland's Love Your God with All Your Mind is a thought-provoking book that deserves to be read by all evangelical Christians. Moreland rightly perceives the damage done to the Church by today's anti-intellectual climate and he offers sound, biblical suggestions for overcoming this barrier to greater Christian influence. |
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Review Summary: Love Your God with All Your Mind |
Date: 2008-07-19 |
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Details: 8 May 2008 - Well laid out book that makes a good case r the importance of thinking in Christianity. While it does a good job there are several aspects to life and how to live that are just as important but are downplayed in this book. |
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Review Summary: Start using your God-given mind! |
Date: 2007-11-15 |
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Details: One of my favorite books! This book alone helped pave my budding interest in Truth and Apologetics. Moreland will challenge the great mass of church-goers to evaluate how engaged their minds are, in every area of their lives. Here you will see with clarity that as followers of Christ, made in his image - we have a mind that must subject all things to reason and logic. We are called to be actively engaged in worship and Spiritual growth, and this book will explain why and where we as a whole, fall short of "loving God with our minds". Being a Christian is not about feeling a certain way, but truly about thinking a certain way. Moreland with words of grace with eloquently knock against your mind to see if there might be anyone home to reason with him. Are you ready to leave the milk and sink your teeth into a little meat?
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Review Summary: One of the First Books I Would Recommend to any Christian |
Date: 2007-08-26 |
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Details: J.P. Moreland lays out the biblical basis for cultivating a mind, and shows the importance of knowlege and reason in everyday life. This book(or other books like it) is important for the Christian who is skeptical about the role of reason in Christianity. This is surely a needed book for the Christian culture in America today who downplay the value of intellect in the faith. |
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Review Summary: A Great Challenge For the Modern Evangelical!!! |
Date: 2007-08-22 |
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Details: Dr. Moreland presents the reader a challenge to develop the reasoning faculties of the mind. Love Your God With All Your Mind is an inspirational message for intellectual and spiritual growth. It is an important work not only to be read but lived in one's daily life. The message of this book calls us to work our minds, to think, to analyze, to ponder, to wonder, to question, and to place ourselves in situations where we are stretched beyond our current mental capacities bring us. He quotes from philosophers, historians, scientists, and spiritual leaders for the sole purpose to awaken to the sluggishness of much to our current anti-intellectual trends and have us use our minds in our worship of God and in our service to others.
One of the most gripping statements Dr. Moreland's makes is when he addresses his own children, and advises them if their faith in Christianity is no longer credible for them that they should abandon it. I found this to be an intriguing statement from such a man who has given his life to cause of the Christ and the defense thereof. Yet, it also reveals the seriousness he takes this intellectual call, and shows the depth of his faith in Christ as well.
Dr. Moreland offers many methods and resources for developing one's mind. Two of the of the more compelling and practical methods of intellectual growth is challenging ourselves to read books that are little above our ability to comprehend, and to maintain relationships with those people who may often sharply and articulately disagree with our point of views. In doing so our own false and weak ideas will be done away with and refuted or the very arguments and positions we hold to will be strengthened.
His final chapter is an appeal to have the Church of Christ rise up and fulfill its calling to be the pillar and support of the truth (I Tim. 3:15). It directly speaks to the church and its responsibility to train its members to have a reasonable faith and be enabled to address the issues of society through intelligent service and with the compassion of Christ.
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