Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling (Biblia.com)

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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...

is known for his warning: “Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. But the man who loves God is known by God” (1 Cor 8:1–2). The warning here is against intellectual pride. But Paul’s strongest warning comes in his first letter to the Corinthians: Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through

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