Habits of Body and Mind for Ren­o­vat­ing the Heart

Richard Fos­ter, always help­ing us put the­o­ry into heart-open­ing action, here gives sev­er­al deeply prac­ti­cal ideas for pre­sent­ing one’s body and mind to Jesus.

In this let­ter I want to stress the impor­tance for you of Dal­las Willard’s book, Ren­o­va­tion of the Heart. To a small group of us Dal­las once said (and here I am quot­ing him from mem­o­ry), “With­out a prop­er the­ol­o­gy of God and a prop­er ontol­ogy and anthro­pol­o­gy of the human self, reli­gion will always degen­er­ate into super­sti­tion or legal­ism, and often both.” Well, Ren­o­va­tion of the Heart gives us the very best “ontol­ogy and anthro­pol­o­gy of the human self” found anywhere.

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