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Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Christianity Today Book Award Winner. What does it mean to love God with your mind? Can the intellectual life be a legitimate Christian calling? In this deeply personal book, James Sire brings wit and wisdom to bear on these questions. He draws from his own experience and the life of John Henry Newman to explore how to think well for the glory of God and the sake of his kingdom. Habits of the...

Second, thinking is rarely a matter of cold, heartless, calculating logic. Thinking feels. Sometimes when I am reading—and thinking while reading—my mind becomes so hot, so affected by the implications of the ideas, that I stop to cool off. John Henry Newman talks about the mind enraptured by the “music of the spheres.” A. G. Sertillanges speaks of being lifted on the downy wings of truth. There is indeed a unity between thinking and feeling. Unity, in fact, stands behind all aspects of our human
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