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The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind, By Alister McGrath

The Passionate Intellect

Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind

by Alister McGrath

The Passionate Intellect
Paperback
$23.99
  • Length: 210 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.25 in
  • Published: March 03, 2014
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830836758
  • 2011 Christianity Today Book Award winner

Alister McGrath, one of the most prominent theologians and public intellectuals of our day, explains how Christian thinking can and must have a positive role in shaping, nourishing and safeguarding the Christian vision of reality. With this in our grasp, we have the capacity for robust intellectual and cultural engagement, confidently entering the public sphere of ideas where atheism, postmodernism and science come into play.

This book explores how the great tradition of Christian theological reflection enriches faith. It deepens our appreciation of the gospel's ability to engage with the complexities of the natural world on the one hand and human experience on the other.

REVIEWS

"In The Passionate Intellect, Alister McGrath provides engaging, accessible, energetic help for Christians who are skeptical about the existential relevance of Christian theology, or who have come to doubt its credibility in the face of the attacks of new atheists and those wedded to a shallow scientism. This series of essays not only provides important support for believers seeking their footing in the current cultural morass, but can also stimulate a new curiosity about the intellectual and spiritual fruitfulness and integrity of the theological enterprise as a whole. It is obviously written by one who, well informed about alternatives to Christian faith, finds in that faith a source of life and of intellectual pleasure."Marguerite Shuster, Fuller Theological Seminary
"McGrath brings his prodigious intellect and broad learning to bear on a number of topics, including apologetics, science and religion, and the new atheism. He demonstrates that theology is 'intellectually stimulating and exciting.' This book should whet the reader's appetite for further exploration of theology."Millard Erickson, author of Christian Theology
"This book is not only about the passionate intellect; it exhibits the phenomenon on every page. Drawing on the rich heritage of Christian faith and practice, McGrath is as much on his home ground in engaging contemporary issues in faith and culture, especially the relation to science. The author argues that good theology not only explains but transforms, and in this well-researched and eminently readable work it's easy to see what he means. The Passionate Intellect is a feast that will delight, provoke and challenge as well as inform us all."Michael Horton, Westminster Seminary California
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CONTENTS

Introduction
Part 1: The Purpose, Place and Relevance of Christian Theology
1 Mere Theology: The Landscape of Faith (1)
2 Mere Theology: The Landscape of Faith (2)
3 The Gospel and the Transformation of Reality: George Herbert's "Elixir"
4 The Cross, Suffering and Theological Bewilderment: Reflections on Martin Luther and C. S. Lewis
5 The Theatre of the Glory of God: A Christian View of Nature
6 The Tapestry of Faith: Theology and Apologetics
Part 2: Engaging with Our Culture
7 The Natural Sciences: Friends or Foes of Faith?
8 Religious and Scientific Faith: The Case of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species
9 Augustine of Hippo on Creationand Evolution
10 Does Religion Poison Everything? The New Atheism and Religious Belief
11 Atheism and the Enlightenment: Reflections on the Intellectual Roots of the New Atheism
Notes
Index

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ABOUT Alister McGrath

Alister McGrath

Alister McGrath is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at Oxford, and (from 2015 to 2018) Gresham Professor of Divinity. His previous posts include Professor of Theology and Education at King’s College, London, and Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University. Alister gained first class honours from Oxford University in Chemistry (1975) and first class honours in Theology (1978).He holds an Oxford DPhil (1978) for his research in molecular biology, a DD from Oxford University’s Faculty of Theology for his work in historical and systematic theology (2001), and a DLitt from Oxford University’s Division of Humanities for his research in science and religion (2013). He was elected FRSA in 2005, in recognition of his work as a public intellectual.

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