Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Writing
1. Good Writing: An Introduction to Rhetoric
2. Invention
3. Structuring the Thesis
4. Coherence
5. Revision
6. From Working Outline to Outline
7. Documentation

Part 2: Reading
8. Defining a Worldview: Religion
The Age of Reason-Thomas Paine
The Nature of Vitalism-Francis Crick
Worldviews in Conflict-Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey
A Place to Stand-Henri J. M. Nouwen
The Small Touch of Grace-Abram Van Engen
Men Have Forgotten God: The Templeton Address-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
9. Living Ethically
Vandalism of Shalom-Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
On Good and Evil-Saint Augustine
Why Get Married?-Lewis B. Smedes
The Death of Infant Doe: Jesus and the Neonates-Allen Verhey
A Quiet Conversion-Cathy Stentzel
No Man Is an Island-John Donne
10. Confrontation with Suffering
In Defense of Pain-Philip Yancey
The Exact Location of the Soul-Richard Selzer
Who Is in Control?-M. Howard Rienstra
My Bones Are Vexed-Judy A. Johnson
Compassionate Action-Benjamin S. Carson
Costly Grace-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
11. Narratives of Life: Understanding Ourselves
The Empty Manger: A Christmas Story-Walter Wangerin Jr.
A Father to the End-Edward E. Ericson Jr.
Fathers-Anna Schemper
Hail Mary-Liz Senefeld
Discipline-Reginald Gibbons
12 Telling the Truth in Literature
Letter to a Christian Artist-H. R. Rookmaaker
On Evil in Art-Thomas Howard
The Christian Reader-Nancy M. Tischler
Why Read Harry Potter? J. K. Rowling and the Christian Debate-Emily Griesinger
Moral Magic? Ethics and Harry Potter-Thea Van Halsema
13. Language and the Liberal Arts
The Living Word: The Bible in Translation
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians-Rita Dove
A Vital Language-Henry Zylstra
The Liberal Arts: What and Why?—Arthur F. Holmes
You're Still Failing-I. M. Cross
14. Living in the Environment
Wilderness Letter-Wallace Stegner
The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis-Lynn White Jr.
Natural Selection-Charles Darwin
The Fixed-Annie Dillard
The Land Ethic-Aldo Leopold
No Silent Spring-Jay Van Andel
Brute Neighbors: The Battle of the Ants-Henry David Thoreau