Knowing Christ Today

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Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge

By Dallas Willard
(HarperOne, 2009)

A rigorous and compelling defense of the ways Christian faith is more than personal preference or private morality: it is, like science or philosophy, a source of real and reliable public knowledge about the world.

(Browse the introduction and first chapter at the publisher’s site here.)

How well does Jesus do at answering the deep questions of existence? Willard shows how his answers can be evaluated on the basis of the evidence, and compared with the answers on offer from other sources, to become a true and reliable basis of knowledge for acting in all spheres of life. 

Includes an extensive discussion of a Christian basis for pluralism and principled respect for other faiths.

Hardcover, 256 pages.

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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. . . . Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

William James, The Principles of Psychology, chapter 8

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