Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life

by John Stott

Publisher:

IVP

, 1972

Overview

“Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service,” writes John Stott. “If we do not use the mind which God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality.” While Christians have had a heritage of rigorous scholarship and careful thinking, some circles still view the intellect with suspicion or even as contradictory to Christian faith. Many non-Christians are quick to label Christians as anti-intellectual. In this classic introduction to Christian thinking, John Stott responds to this criticism with a forceful appeal for Christian discipleship that engages the mind as well as the heart.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.” (Page 52)

“But animals were created to behave by instinct, human beings (pace the behaviorists) by intelligent choice” (Page 24)

“God’s purpose is both, zeal directed by knowledge, knowledge fired with zeal” (Page 13)

“God as creator, God as revealer, God as redeemer, God as judge” (Page 8)

“One may perhaps say that if in nature God’s revelation is visualized, in Scripture it is verbalized, and in Christ it is both, for he is ‘the Word made flesh.’” (Page 29)

Product Details

• Title: Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life
• Author: John Stott
• Series: IVP Classics
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 1972
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian life; Faith and reason › Christianity
• ISBNs: 9780830879601, 0830879609
• Resource ID: LLS:YOURMINDMATTERS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T04:32:36Z

About John Stott

John Stott CBE (1921 – 2011) was a Christian leader and Anglican clergyman who is noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He is famous as one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. John Stott was ordained into the ministry of the Church of England in 1945 and has served the same church ever since. He was assistant pastor of All Souls for 5 years, the senior pastor (Rector) for 25, and Rector Emeritus since 1975. During the last quarter century he had been set free (under the auspices of the Langham Partnership) to travel the world, especially for ministry to pastors and students. He has been a Chaplain to the Queen since 1959. He was President of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.