Healthy Christian Minds - Thiessen, Elmer John
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We live in polarizing times. In this book Elmer Thiessen dares to suggest that the solution to the deep divides in our contemporary world and in the church is not to be found in more information, more education, more rationality, or more critical thinking. Instead, we need to cultivate intellectual virtues, such as the love of knowledge and truth, intellectual humility, and committed openness. The penultimate chapter treats intellectual virtues that are more relational in nature--intellectual forbearance, fairmindedness, and intellectual courage. The book explores the biblical and theological…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
We live in polarizing times. In this book Elmer Thiessen dares to suggest that the solution to the deep divides in our contemporary world and in the church is not to be found in more information, more education, more rationality, or more critical thinking. Instead, we need to cultivate intellectual virtues, such as the love of knowledge and truth, intellectual humility, and committed openness. The penultimate chapter treats intellectual virtues that are more relational in nature--intellectual forbearance, fairmindedness, and intellectual courage. The book explores the biblical and theological grounding of each intellectual virtue and reveals its practical importance for our fractious times, making use of concrete examples throughout. Each of the central chapters begins with a questionnaire aimed at promoting self-examination and stimulating reflection about the virtues and vices under consideration. This is a book for the thoughtful Christian reader aimed at transforming the way we think.
Autorenporträt
Elmer John Thiessen grew up in several small Mennonite villages and started school in a one-room school house in southern Saskatchewan, He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo and taught philosophy at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, for 36 years. Returning to Waterloo after retirement, he continued teaching part-time at Wilfrid Laurier University and at Emmanuel Bible College. Further international teaching stints have included Lithuania Christian College, Meserete Kristos College in Ethiopia, and the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology in Kingston, Jamaica. He has published numerous articles and book reviews, both in academic journals and religious magazines. His research specialties have been the philosophy of religious education and religious schooling, and the ethics of evangelism. In addition to his five published books, one of which was award winning, he has published over 70 articles in academic journals, over 75 book reviews in both secular and religious journals and magazines, and over 100 articles in both religious and secular magazines and newspapers.