Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part 1 The Discipleship of the Hind: Five Reflections
1 The Lord Is My Light: On the Discipleship of the Mind 3
2 Belief: The Place of the Creeds in the Life of Faith 19
3 Habits of the Christian Mind: The Community of Faith and Personal Growth 35
4 Books and the Discipleship of the Mind 47
5 The Balcony and the Road: A Framework for Understanding Christian Discipleship 61
Part 2 Growing in Wisdom: Four Practitioners
6 The Creative Mind: Dorothy L. Sayers on Making Sense of Our World 73
7 C. S. Lewis on the Reasonableness of the Christian Faith 85
8 Listening and Engaging: John Stott on the Gospel and Our Culture 99
9 J. I. Packer on Theology and Spirituality 111
Part 3 Journeying in Hope: Four Sermons
10 Truth, Mystery, and Darkness: On the Limits of Human Understanding 123
11 Intelligibility and Coherence: The Christian Vision of Reality 131
12 Hope in the Darkness 139
13 The Hope of Heaven 143
Notes 147