Cornelius Plantinga is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary and senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. His previous books include Beyond Doubt, Not the Way It's Supposed to Be, and Engaging God's World, and his many articles and essays have appeared in such periodicals as Books & Culture, Christianity Today, and The Christian Century.
George Marsden
"Cornelius Plantinga, as usual, has done a masterful job." John
Ortberg
"Reading Neal Plantinga on loving God with our minds is like
listening to Louis Armstrong play jazz or watching Ben and Jerry
make ice cream. A master craftsman is at work. He wears a mantle of
rich learning with lightness and grace. To read him is to remember
that learning -- when it's done rightly -- is an act of devotion
and submission and fierce joy. I will give this book to my three
children. I wish all students would read it. " Mary Stewart Van
Leeuwen
"An absorbing and gracefully written introduction to the biblical
drama and its importance for education and vocational reflection.
Laced also with pithy metaphors and wry but well-placed humor, this
is vintage Neal Plantinga." Robert C. Andringa
"This book will become required reading for thousands of students.
But its fresh and engaging style will attract and inform faculty,
parents, trustees, and others who have an interest in the growing
movement of intentionally Christian colleges and universities. Neal
Plantinga makes a case for why the Christian worldview makes a huge
difference in how we learn and live. " John G. Stackhouse Jr.
"Welcome to Christian thought! Neal Plantinga has accomplished the
extraordinary. This book introduces us to broad reaches of
Christian theology with clarity, humor, balance, and verve. This
book will intrigue and delight students and professors alike in
Calvinist colleges (the context from which it emerges). But don't
be put off by Plantinga's Dutch Calvinist accent! His is a voice of
wide learning, cultural sensitivity, and deep spiritual conviction
that never condescends as he simply and winsomely teaches us great
truths of our universal Christian faith. And students and
professors at secular universities will value this handbook of
Christian as they, too, seek a Christian perspective on their
academic vocations. " Robert Benne
"Would that all church-related colleges were willing to offer this
text by Neal Plantinga to their students to make Christian sense of
their education. Its argument is biblically grounded, theologically
sound, wisely commended, and, as is usual with his writing,
beautifully expressed. A great theological framework for Christian
education! " Library Journal
"Plantinga has written a sage, mature, and avuncular ? even
paternal ? guide to the essentials of the Christian life for the
college student. Most valuable, perhaps, is the final section,
where he holds forth a vision of how a student should use
'knowledge, skills, and virtues' in the service of God."
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