Think : the life of the mind and the love of God / John Piper.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway, c2010.Description: 222 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781433520716 (tpb)
  • 1433520710 (tpb)
  • 9781433520723 (hb)
  • 1433520729 (hb)
  • 9781433520730 (mobipocket)
  • 1433520737 (mobipocket)
  • 9781433520747 (ebk)
  • 1433520745 (ebk)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV 4598.4 .P56 2010
Contents:
Foreword / Mark A. Noll -- My pilgrimage -- Deep help from a dead friend -- Reading as thinking -- Mental adultery is no escape -- Rational gospel, spiritual light -- Love for God : treasuring God with all your mind -- Jesus meets the relativists -- The immorality of relativism -- Unhelpful anti-intellectual impulses in our history -- You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding -- In the wisdom of God the world did not know God through wisdom -- The knowledge that loves -- All scholarship for the love of God and man -- A final plea.
Summary: Piper urges us to think for the glory of God. He demonstrates from Scripture that glorifying God with our minds and hearts is not either-or, but both-and. Thinking carefully about God fuels passion and affections for God. Likewise, Christ-exalting emotion leads to disciplined thinking. --from publisher description
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection BV 4598.4 .P56 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98640457
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword / Mark A. Noll -- My pilgrimage -- Deep help from a dead friend -- Reading as thinking -- Mental adultery is no escape -- Rational gospel, spiritual light -- Love for God : treasuring God with all your mind -- Jesus meets the relativists -- The immorality of relativism -- Unhelpful anti-intellectual impulses in our history -- You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding -- In the wisdom of God the world did not know God through wisdom -- The knowledge that loves -- All scholarship for the love of God and man -- A final plea.

Piper urges us to think for the glory of God. He demonstrates from Scripture that glorifying God with our minds and hearts is not either-or, but both-and. Thinking carefully about God fuels passion and affections for God. Likewise, Christ-exalting emotion leads to disciplined thinking. --from publisher description

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