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finished Part 3 Journeying in Hope Four Sermons

5: The Balcony & The Road

John Mackay’s framework of understanding Christian discipleship; Fénelon’s “Mentor & Telemachus”; “The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.”—Oppenheimer; the Christian big picture expressed in books, embodied in life

finished Part 1 The Discipleship of the Mind Five Reflections

4: Books & the Discipleship of the Mind

Francis Bacon: “old authors to read”; Lewis … was able to transcend his limits; “capacity of books to break spells & open up new ways of visualizing & inhabiting our world”; classic writers help us to break free from our assumption that the most recent is the best; we read books to put us in touch with a wider world & new ways of thinking: grasping the big picture

3: Habits of the Christian Mind

the church = the community of faith and personal growth; the Christian vision: on seeing things as they really are; Rom 12:2 transformed by renewing of your mind; transformation of reality which allows us to “construct meaning & value”; 3 elements of the discipling of the mind; the church & the world: distinct but not disconnected; the place of worship in discipleship; conclusion

2 Belief: The Place of the Creeds in the Life of Faith

1 The Lord Is My Light

shaping the Christian mind, anti-intellectualism & the “foolishness” of the Gospel, the Gospel & the illumination of reality, the discipleship of the mind & Christian witness, a case study: the natural sciences, conclusion

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