Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ, 20th Anniversary ed.
Overview
Renovation of the Heart is an influential contribution from the late Dallas Willard that continues to break ground twenty years after its first release.
Helping us to understand how character is formed and where Jesus does his most significant work on our spiritual and emotional health, this book changed a generation’s mind about what it means to follow Jesus—not a matter of sin management but a matter of drawing near and letting ourselves be shaped into the eternal people of God.
With reflections on the book’s impact over its life from family, friends, and admirers of Dallas, and supplemental resources for the first time in print, Renovation of the Heart will continue its ministry of liberation-by-formation for years to come.
Includes a foreword by John Mark Comer and an afterword by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson.
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- Explores drawing near and letting ourselves be shaped into the eternal people of God
- Includes a foreword by John Mark Comer and an afterword by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
- Foreword John Mark Comer
- Prelude
- Introducing Spiritual Formation: The “Beyond Within” and the Way of Jesus
- The Heart in the System of Human Life
- Radical Evil in the Ruined Soul
- Radical Goodness Restored to the Soul
- Spiritual Change: The Reliable Pattern
- Interlude
- Transforming the Mind, Part 1: Spiritual Formation and the Thought Life
- Transforming the Mind, Part 2: Spiritual Formation and Our Feelings
- Transforming the Will (Heart or Spirit) and Character
- Transforming the Body
- Transforming Our Social Dimension
- Transforming the Soul
- The Children of Light and the Light of the World
- Spiritual Formation in the Local Congregation
- Postlude
- Afterword Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
- Dallas Willard Discusses Renovation of the Heart
Top Highlights
“Conversely, a renovated ‘within’ will not cooperate with public streams of unrighteousness. It will block them—or die trying. It is the only thing that can do so.” (Page 7)
“Spiritual formation, without regard to any specifically religious context or tradition, is the process by which the human spirit or will is given a definite ‘form’ or character. It is a process that happens to everyone. The most despicable as well as the most admirable of persons have had a spiritual formation. Terrorists as well as saints are the outcome of spiritual formation. Their spirits or hearts have been formed. Period.” (Page 12)
“presence of the kingdom and its King into every corner of human life by simply, fully living in the kingdom with him.” (Page 8)
“Spiritual formation is, in practice, the way of rest for the weary and overloaded, of the easy yoke and the light burden (Matthew 11:28–30), of cleaning the ‘inside of the cup and … the dish’ (23:26), of the good tree that cannot bear bad fruit (Luke 6:43). And it is the path along which God’s commandments are found to be not ‘heavy,’ not ‘burdensome’ (1 John 5:3).” (Page 17)
“it is who we are in our thoughts, feelings, dispositions, and choices—in the inner life—that counts” (Page 17)
- Title: Renovation of the Heart (20th Anniversary Edition): Putting on the character of Christ
- Authors: Dallas Willard, John Mark Comer, Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
- Publisher: Form
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Spiritual formation
- ISBNs: 9780281086320, 028108632X
- Resource ID: LLS:9780281086320
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:41:57Z