Called To The Life Of The Mind

Author : Richard J. Mouw
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802867669
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Called to the Life of the Mind written by Richard J. Mouw and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wasn t supposed to spend my life in the world of scholarship, Richard Mouw acknowledges at the beginning of Called to the Life of the Mind. Yet he has indeed spent his career in the academy -- and has become one of the most widely respected evangelical Christian scholars of our time. In this wise little book Mouw defends Christian scholarship as an important and legitimate endeavor, responding in particular to those traditions that continue to be suspicious of intellectual pursuits. Writing in an inviting, conversational style, Mouw reflects candidly on the faithful Christian cultivation of the life of the mind and offers gentle advice on how Christians, especially evangelicals, might fruitfully navigate the world of the academy as followers of Jesus.

Author : Christine Smallwood
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0593229916
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Mind written by Christine Smallwood and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, The Atlantic, Electric Lit, Thrillist, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews • A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction—“the glorious love child of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) “[A] jewel of a debut . . . abundantly satisfying.”—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker As an adjunct professor of English in New York City with little hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy feels “like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had nowhere else to be but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise.” No one but her boyfriend knows that she’s just had a miscarriage—not her mother, her best friend, or her therapists (Dorothy has two of them). She wasn’t even sure she wanted to be a mother. So why does Dorothy feel like a failure? The Life of the Mind is a book about endings—of youth, of ambition, of possibility, but also of the meaning that an inquiring mind can find in the mess of daily experience. Mordant and remorselessly wise, this jewel of a debut cuts incisively into life as we live it, and how we think of it.

Author : James W. Sire
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830848789
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Habits of the Mind written by James W. Sire and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Christianity Today Book Award Winner What does it mean to love God with your mind? Can the intellectual life be a legitimate Christian calling? In this deeply personal book, James Sire brings wit and wisdom to bear on these questions. He draws from his own experience and the life of John Henry Newman to explore how to think well for the glory of God and the sake of his kingdom. Habits of the Mind challenges you to avoid one of the greatest pitfalls of intellectual life: the temptation to separate being from knowing. Sire shows how to cultivate intellectual virtues and disciplines—habits of the mind—that will strengthen you in pursuit of your calling. Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Sire offers assurance that intellectual life can be a true calling for Christians: because Jesus was the smartest man who ever lived, you can and should accept the challenge to think with more accuracy, wisdom, humility, and passion. This classic work is now available as part of the IVP Signature Collection, which features special editions of iconic books in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of InterVarsity Press.

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802870767
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind written by Mark A. Noll and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994) Mark Noll offered a forthrightly critical assessment of the state of evangelical thinking and scholarship. Now, nearly twenty years later, in a sequel more attuned to possibilities than to problems, Noll updates his earlier assessment and charts a positive way forward for evangelical scholarship. Noll's Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind shows how the orthodox Christology confessed in the ancient Christian creeds, far from hindering or discouraging serious scholarship, can supply the motives, guidance, and framework for learning. Christian faith, Noll argues, can richly enhance intellectual engagement in the various academic disciplines -- and he demonstrates how by applying his insights to the fields of history (his own area of expertise), science, and biblical studies in particular. In a substantial postscript Noll candidly addresses the question How fares the "evangelical mind" today? as he highlights "hopeful signs" of intellectual life in a host of evangelical institutions, individuals, and movements. -- From publisher description.

Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156519922
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Mind written by Hannah Arendt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1981 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of man's mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Edited by Mary McCarthy; Indices.

Author : Christine Smallwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787703452
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Mind written by Christine Smallwood and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mitch Cullin
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400078229
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Slight Trick of the Mind written by Mitch Cullin and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.

Author : Evan Thompson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674736885
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind in Life written by Evan Thompson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is life related to the mind? Thompson explores this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness, drawing on sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy. Ultimately he shows that mind and life are more continuous than previously accepted, and that current explanations do not adequately address the myriad facets of the biology and phenomenology of mind.

Author : Isaac Watts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Improvement of the Mind written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas E. Christie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199812322
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Sapphire of the Mind written by Douglas E. Christie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Blue Sapphire of the Mind, Douglas E.