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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...

spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth. So my primary goal in this book is to encourage you to think more and better than you did before reading it, to strive toward “the perfection of the intellect,” to enjoy the proper habits of the mind. Though I discuss some specific biblical, theological and philosophic notions, I am far more interested in stimulating good Christian thinking and prompting it to
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