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David Horner

Book Review: Mind Your Faith

October 15, 2013 by Bob Trube Leave a Comment

Ideas have consequences. The Holocaust began as an idea, argues David Horner*. Thinking well and loving God with our minds is thus an essential calling for Christians. Horner dedicates  Mind Your Faith: A Student's Guide to Thinking & Living Well  to helping university students, especially undergraduate first years, grasp what it takes to think and live well in their university years and beyond. Horner begins with our minds. He talks about what we mean when we talk about something being true, how to think about … [Read more...] about Book Review: Mind Your Faith

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: character, David Horner, discipleship of the mind, doubt, faith and reason, Holocaust, Huguenots, intervarsity press, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, loving God, Mind Your Faith: A Student's Guide to Thinking & Living Well, thinking

Headed to Graduate School: Begin with the End in Mind

July 26, 2012 by Rick Mattson Leave a Comment

In my travels to campuses around the country (40 in the past two years), I meet up with a lot of students who are headed to grad school someday. Here is what I wish I could suggest to each one of them: Begin with the end in mind. The “end” is the final goal, the destination of one's schooling. For many students, that would be to get a good job in their field and make a significant contribution to the overall good of humanity. Not bad! But in my view, for the Christian it's shooting too low. Let me suggest a goal … [Read more...] about Headed to Graduate School: Begin with the End in Mind

Filed Under: Advice for Entering Graduate School, Christ and the Academy, Vocation Tagged With: biblical personhood, Christian Theology, college transition, David Horner, graduate school, Headed to Graduate School, image of God, knowledge, Millard Erickson, Mind Your Faith, secular learning, Stanley Grenz, The Social God and the Relational Self

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