Mind Your Faith: A Student’s Guide to Thinking and Living Well

by David A. Horner

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2011

Overview

The university world can be a confusing place, filled with many competing worldviews and perspectives. Beliefs and values are challenged at every turn. But Christians need not slip into the morass of easy relativism.

David Horner restores sanity to the collegiate experience with this guide to thinking and flourishing as a Christian. Carefully exploring how ideas work, he gives you essential tools for thinking contextually, thinking logically and thinking worldviewishly. Here Horner meets you where faith and reason intersect and explores how to handle doubts, with an eye toward not just thinking clearly but also living faithfully. This is the book every college freshman needs to read. Don’t leave home without it.

Key Features

• Restores sanity to the collegiate experience with this guide.
• Gives you essential tools for thinking contextually.
• Meets you where faith and reason intersect.

Contents

Preface
1 Sanity in the University: Getting Started
Part One: Mind
2 Loving God with Your Mind
3 The Truth About Truth
4 The Truth About Belief and Knowledge
5 Thinking Contextually: Find Common Ground
6 Thinking Logically: Ask Good Questions and Give Good Reasons
7 Thinking Wordviewishly: Connect the Dots
Part Two: Faith
8 The Nature of Faith: Getting it Clear
9 The Necessity of Faith: Faith and Reason
10 Challenges to Faith: Handling Doubts and Objections
11 The Credibility of Faith: Thinking Worldviewishly
Part Three: Character
12 College Life and the Good Life: A Moral Vision
13 Lessons from Le Chambon: A Moral Example
Appendix: More Resources
Notes
Index

Praise for Mind Your Faith

More than just enabling you to sidestep the many pitfalls awaiting young Christians who enter academia, Mind Your Faith will equip you to flourish at the university in your mind, faith, and character. The clarity with which David Horner envisions a thoughtful Christian presence in the university’s marketplace of ideas is what will make this an essential read for my four children before leaving high school.

-Brent Cunningham, Teaching Pastor, Timberline Church, Fort Collins, CO

There are many excellent books on the subject of preparing students for college, but few written with the same passion, clarity and genuine concern for the life of the mind of a college student. David Horner’s Mind Your Faith helps us understand the delicate relationship between faith and reason; that behavior follows belief and doctrine informs duty. Parents, this is the best high school graduation gift you can give to your student. Student, this is a must-read because there’s simply too much at risk. Lose faith, lose your mind, and vice versa. Neither of which is good.

-Harry Edwards, founder and director of Apologetics.com, Inc.

Many Christians heading off to college are simply unprepared for the intellectual, spiritual and moral challenges that await them. Confronted with new ideas, strong desires and relational pressures, it’s not surprising that so many drift away from their childhood faith. But it doesn’t have to be this way! In this timely book, David Horner offers students a compelling vision of what it means to follow Jesus Christ with a mature faith during the college years and beyond. High school graduates need to read this book!

-Jonathan Morrow, author of Welcome to College and founder of www.thinkchristianly.org

Dr. Horner brings a wealth of experience to this wise and winsome operating manual for godly Christian engagement on the college campus. Colleges and universities shape culture more than any other contemporary institution, and souls are saved or lost there on a daily basis. This clear, incisive and enjoyable book will equip students to develop a Christian orientation to this challenging arena that will serve them not only as they pursue their degrees but also for a lifetime of discipleship unto the Lord Jesus Christ.

-Douglas Groothuis, professor, Denver Seminary, and author of Christian Apologetics

Product Details

• Title: Mind Your Faith: A Student's Guide to Thinking and Living Well
• Author: David A. Horner
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 272
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Apologetics; Mind and faith; Students; Faith
• ISBNs: 9780830869350, 0830869352
• Resource ID: LLS:9780830869350
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-18T15:48:18Z

About David A. Horner

David A. Horner (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is professor of philosophy and biblical studies at Biola University in California. He also serves as research scholar for Centers for Christian Study, International, an effort to develop intellectual Christian communities within secular university contexts, and as president of The Illuminatio Project, whose aim is to bring the light of a classical biblical vision of goodness, truth and beauty into the thinking of the church and culture through strategic research and communication.