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Highlights
- The university world can be a confusing place, filled with many competing worldviews and perspectives.
- About the Author: David A. Horner (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is professor of philosophy and biblical studies at Biola University in California.
- 272 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Life
Description
About the Book
For young Christians about to embark on the collegiate experience, David Horner provides a guide to thinking as a Christian. Carefully exploring how ideas work, he gives students essential tools for thinking critically, contextually and coherently, unpacking worldviews and discerning truth.
Book Synopsis
The university world can be a confusing place, filled with many competing worldviews and perspectives. Beliefs and values are challenged at every turn. But Christians need not slip into the morass of easy relativism. David Horner restores sanity to the collegiate experience with this guide to thinking and flourishing as a Christian. Carefully exploring how ideas work, he gives you essential tools for thinking contextually, thinking logically and thinking worldviewishly. Here Horner meets you where faith and reason intersect and explores how to handle doubts, with an eye toward not just thinking clearly but also living faithfully.This is the book every college freshman needs to read. Don't leave home without it.
Review Quotes
"Mind Your Faith is an excellent resource for any pastor or campus minister seeking to help their students understand why their faith is reasonable and can be trusted to guide their lives. Although written with the young Christian in mind, this book is applicable to any age, stage of life, or belief system. Wherever you stand, this book will have a profound impact on your understanding of faith and its impact on your life."
--Lindy Tilus, Enrichment, Fall 2012"More than just enabling you to sidestep the many pitfalls awaiting young Christians who enter academia, Mind Your Faith will equip you to flourish at the university in your mind, faith, and character. The clarity with which David Horner envisions a thoughtful Christian presence in the university's marketplace of ideas is what will make this an essential read for my four children before leaving high school."
--Brent Cunningham, Teaching Pastor, Timberline Church, Fort Collins, CO"The opportunities for a reflective Christian student in the university are nearly endless. Mind your Faith is a captivating resource that will help prospective and current students engage more carefully both with their faith and with the world of the university. Horner's analysis and applications are crystal clear and are born out of decades of experience in the academy. Every Christian student and parent ought to reflect carefully on this book."
--Gregory E. Ganssle, Rivendell Institute at Yale"There are many excellent books on the subject of preparing students for college, but few written with the same passion, clarity and genuine concern for the life of the mind of a college student. David Horner's Mind Your Faith helps us understand the delicate relationship between faith and reason; that behavior follows belief and doctrine informs duty. Parents, this is the best high school graduation gift you can give to your student. Student, this is a must-read because there's simply too much at risk. Lose faith, lose your mind, and vice versa. Neither of which is good."
--Harry Edwards, founder and director of Apologetics.com, Inc."This book is a deep, scholarly discussion of the intellectual and moral challenges that colleges' intellectual experiences pose to Christian faith."
--Brian Simmons, The Christian Chronicle, May 2012"This is the book I have been waiting for. Mind Your Faith is a much-needed resource to help young people flourish as followers of Jesus in the university. I wish I had this book before I went to college! I will be personally recommending this to the many students I get to work with every day."
--Sean McDowell, educator, speaker and author of Ethix: Being Bold in a Whatever WorldAbout the Author
David A. Horner (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is professor of philosophy and biblical studies at Biola University in California. He also serves as research scholar for Centers for Christian Study, International, an effort to develop intellectual Christian communities within secular university contexts, and as president of The Illuminatio Project, whose aim is to bring the light of a classical biblical vision of goodness, truth and beauty into the thinking of the church and culture through strategic research and communication.
