A Mind for God, By James Emery White
A Mind for God
Paperback
  • Length: 127 pages
  • Dimensions: 5 × 7 in
  • Published: July 08, 2013
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830836635
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To be fully human is to think.The apostle Paul calls us to "take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5). But James Emery White fears that Western Christians are failing in this task. Because we have not developed good intellectual habits, our minds instead have been captured by our culture.A Mind for God is written to help us break free from this cultural captivity through the spiritual and intellectual disciplines of reading, study and reflection. This inspirational and practical "rule for the mind" encourages and enables us to develop our minds for God.Includes book lists and resources so you can "grow your brain."

"God wants us to have the mind of Christ. But what is that mind and how do we get it? James Emery White answers these questions in some of the most lucid prose being written today. A pleasure to read! A joy to take his advice!"James W. Sire, author of The Universe Next Door and Learning to Pray Through the Psalms
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Mind for God
1. The Christian Mind
2. The Cultural Mind
3. The Library as Armory
4. The Lost Tools of Learning
5. Sacred Thinking
6. A Rule for the Mind
7.Thinking Out Loud
Appendix 1: Three Book Lists
Appendix 2: Resources for Learning
Notes

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James Emery White

James Emery White is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is also adjunct professor of theology and culture at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he previously served as the school's fourth president. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Serious Times and A Search for the Spiritual.