Habits of the Mind: Intellectual life as a Christian calling
10 best books like Habits of the Mind: Intellectual life as a Christian calling (James W. Sire): The Way Things are, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Preaching, The Idea of a University, Lectures on Calvinism, Who's Afraid of Relativism?: Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)
When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...
| Author | Josef Pieper |
| ISBN | 1890318353 |
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that the Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval...
| Author | Fred B. Craddock |
| ISBN | 0687336481 |
Preaching was the kind of book that stands the test of time as a textbook on a subject. However, perhaps it would be better served if I first understood its goal rather than coming in with preconceived notions about what it would be and to find myself dissatisfied at the end. I believed it to be a textbook...
| Author | John Henry Newman |
| ISBN | 0268011508 |
All the while I was listening to, reading along with, and contemplating Newman’s The Idea of a University I’ve been fighting this overwhelming sense of inadequacy. I can’t remember when I’ve encountered an author who’s challenged me so. While an excellent discipline and one to which I do...
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Very helpful book. Kuyper, who was prime minister of the Netherlands for four years, was invited by B. B. Warfield to Princeton in 1898 to participate in the Stone Lectures. An annual prize was...
| Author | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 0801039738 |
Following his successful Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?, leading Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig...
| Author | Antonin Sertillanges |
| ISBN | 0813206464 |
"Evening! how little , usually, people know about making it holy and quiet, about using it to prepare for really restorative sleep! How it is wasted, polluted, misdirected."
~~ quote from The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.
It has taken me a year to work my way through...
| Author | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 0801035775 |
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans–as Augustine noted–are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.
James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy...
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
| Author | Gerald Graff |
| ISBN | 0393924092 |
Very interesting premise, namely, looking at academic writing as participating in a dialogue. It's a fascinating idea that goes back to at least Greek roots in the Socratic dialogue. (Come to think of it, some Eastern teachers use that technique as well; I'm just not well-versed in non-Western history)....
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
| Author | Paul J. Silvia |
| ISBN | 1433829738 |
All academics need to write, but many struggle to finish their dissertations, articles, books, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. How can we write it all while still having a life?
In this second edition of his popular guidebook,...
The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature
| Author | Sidney Greidanus |
| ISBN | 0802803601 |
A fusion of biblical hermeneutics and homiletics, this thorough and well-researched book offers a holistic contemporary approach to the interpretation and preaching of biblical texts, using all the scholarly tools available and focusing especially on literary features. Greidanus develops...
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog
| Author | William B. Badke |
| ISBN | 1462010199 |
Writing research papers does not have to be the painful experience many people make it out to be. It is possible to develop significant skills in order to make the writing process much easier than you think. In "Research Strategies," author William Badke offers a clear, simple, and often humorous roadmap...
Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
| Author | Douglas Wilson |
| ISBN | 1591280990 |
I am evaluating Wilson on professional respect, and I am trying to keep my antipathy of his theology, polemics, and ecclesiology to a minimum. Wilson has triumphed in an area where most people have failed--writing. Therefore, if he writes a book on how to write well, and how to live the writer's life,...
Preaching That Changes Lives
| Author | Michael Fabarez |
| ISBN | 0785249141 |
Certainly there are many books about preaching on the market today, but no author directs his attention to the clear message of changing lives more than Michael Fabarez.
Everything a pastor does must be done with the perspective of changing lives. When a pastor studies, it should be with the...
Privilege the Text!: A Theological Hermeneutic for Preaching
| Author | Abraham Kuruvilla |
| ISBN | 0802407137 |
Privilege the Text! spans the conceptual gap between biblical text and life application by providing a rigorous theological hermeneutic for preaching.
Kuruvilla describes the theological entity that is the intermediary between ancient text and modern audience, and defines its crucial...
| Author | Helen Sword |
| ISBN | 0674064488 |
Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty...
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| ISBN | 0262527138 |
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel "The Name of the Rose," he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, "How to Write...
