Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

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Summary: Christians Awaken Your Minds... Please
Review: This book is for Christians. Unlike Moreland's other books which are aimed at rationally defending Christianity, this one aims at getting Christians to stop being the intellectual weakling in society. Dr. Moreland's approach is Biblical from the conservative evangelical point of view. This book says nothing new. It encourages Christians to go back to the intellectual attitudes held by Christians for 1800 of the 2000 year history of the church. Let's be able to outhink our critics once again and have the church as the main centre of influence in society again. PLEASE IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, BUY THIS BOOK. It will be your first step to growing from your current spiritual food to eating 2 inch thick porterhouse steaks. AGAIN IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, PLEASE BUY THIS BOOK. Rational Faith by Craig, and Scaling the Secular City by Moreland are also must buys but...IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, PLEASE BUY THIS BOOK FIRST. Thank You JP!!

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Summary: The True Spiritual Revival
Review: This book will awaken Christians with a fundamental message that has been long forgotten due to spiritual blindness and the many false (psychological or occult) revivals that have taken place these last apostate times. The message of this book is the only hope for Christianity to fulfill its mission.
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Summary: May turn on some lights but leave you in the cold
Review: This is a disturbing book. While I found much of it enlightening with points well-argued, it portrays a cold-hearted Christianity; an army of defenders and apologetics who have little of the "impractical" compassion that we need if we are to bring the spirit of Christ into our world. I prefer the kinder, gentler treatment of this subject by authors like Richard Foster, Philip Yancey, Dallas Willard, who I think better understand the integration of reason and compassion in a life of faith.

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Summary: Great book, but has problems
Review: This is a great book, but it could be greatly simplified, I feel, and therefore, be more effective in this age of mindless adults dumbed down by a worthless public education and university system. Also, his political viewpoint, which rejects out of hand the use of God's laws and moral commands when it comes to government, shows that he is over his head when it comes to this topic. He needs to read more in this area. He might start with Gary DeMar's "The Ruler of the Nations." Then, read the last section of Calvin's "Institutes," followed by a closer study of biblical texts such as Romans 13, 1 Samuel 8 and the Book of Proverbs.

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Summary: Nice Try, But...
Review: While I applaud Moreland's attempt to address the dearth of intellectualism in the evangelical movement, the book's rather decided right wing political bias largely discredits the attempt to promote true Christian intellectualism. By addressing the issue of intellectualism Moreland takes a courageous single step in the right direction but by burdening the work with shallow secular politics the overall effect is to push evangelical Christianity two steps back. If you are looking for a more insightful approach to this issue you might try Noll's "Scandal of the Evangelical Mind" or any of the works by Richard Foster.