The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives (audio)
Overview
Dallas Willard, one of today’s most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today’s 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplines is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention.
- Demonstrates how to live a full and complete Christian life
- Addresses the importance of the fruits of the spirit
- Discusses how to be an effective disciple in thought, action, and intention
- The Secret of the Easy Yoke
- Making Theology of the Disciplines Practical
- Salvation Is a Life
- “Little Less Than a God”
- The Nature of Life
- Spiritual Life: The Body’s Fulfillment
- St. Paul’s Psychology of Redemption—The Example
- History and Meaning of the Disciplines
- Some Main Disciplines for the Spiritual Life
- Is Poverty Spiritual?
- The Disciplines and the Power Structures of This World
A strong call to biblical obedience and discipline, this book presents a fresh look at the eternal—and contemporary—relevance of the Scriptures.
—Ted W. Engstrom, president emeritus, World Vision
A profound call to discipleship based on spiritual disciplines [that] awakens us to a forgotten truth, that the transformation to Christ-likeness is realized through taking on the ‘easy yoke’ of the disciplines.
—Sue Monk Kidd, author, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
- Title: The Spirit of the Disciplines
- Author: Dallas Willard
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Edition: Unabridged
- Publisher: christianaudio
- Print Publisher: HarperCollins
- Runtime: 9 hours
- Product Type: Audiobook
- Christian Group: Evangelicals
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Discipleship
Dallas Willard (1935-2013) was a professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for over forty years. A highly influential author and teacher, Willard was as celebrated for his enduring writings on spiritual formation as he was for his scholarship. His books include The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's Book of the Year in 1998), The Spirit of the Disciplines, Hearing God, Renovation of the Heart and others. His books have received numerous Christianity Today Annual Book Awards and other recognitions. Willard served on the boards of the C. S. Lewis Foundation and Biola University, and was a member of numerous evaluation committees for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. He received bachelor's degrees from both Tennessee Temple College and Baylor University and a graduate degree at Baylor University, as well as a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Philosophy and the History of Science.
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Joe Kimmell
1/3/2016
This along with all the works of Dallas Willard NEEDS to be available in electronic print version on logos along with the audio. HUGE
