Tag: The Christian Mind
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A Steadfast Mind (2)
And there are three parts of this steadfastness of the mind: (1) full purpose of cleaving to God in all things; (2) a daily renovation and quickening of the heart unto a discharge of this purpose; (3) resolutions against all dalliances or parleys about negligence in that discharge… – John Owen, The Power and Efficacy…
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A Steadfast Mind
The steadfastness of our minds abiding in their duty is the cause of all our unmovableness and fruitfulness in obedience; and so Peter tells us that those who are by any means led away or enticed “fall from their own steadfastness” (2 Pet. 3:17). And the great blame that is laid upon backsliders is that…
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Religion and Science
Sometimes people ask if religion and science are opposed to each other. They are – in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand are opposed to each other. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped. — William Henry Bragg, British physicist who with his son won the…
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Sound Mind in Sound Body
“A thinker does not spend his life in the processes of digestion.” So says Sertillanges. What has this to do with The Intellectual Life? A lot. He quotes the following (I assume these are from Aristotle, but I may be wrong): The different dispositions of men for the operations of the soul depend on the…
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Purity of Thought, Purity of Soul
In ch. 2 of The Intellectual Life Sertillanges points out that “Purity of thought requires purity of soul.” He quotes St. Thomas of Aquin: The exercise of moral virtues, of the virtues by which the passions are held in check, is of great importance for the acquisition of knowledge. He then asks, “What are the…
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The Intellectual Life
I’m presently reading A.D. Sertillanges’ The Intellectual Life. I first came to know about this book while reading James Sire’s Habits of the Mind. Yesterday I found a secondhand copy of this book at a local secondhand bookstore. I was so happy with my discovery I felt like kissing the book! I’ve just finished the…
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Jenson on the Christian Calling to Intellect
"Christians' calling to intellect is the calling to nurture the word, to tend books and foster argument … We serve a talkative God, who does not even seem to be able to do without a library. In his service, we will be concerned for talk and libraries. And some of us will have the privilege…
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Christian Scholarship
"The point of Christian scholarship is not recognition by standards established in the wider culture. The point is to praise God with the mind … Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One before whom all hearts are open." — Mark A. Noll, The Scandal…
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