Notes
Notes
Introduction
. Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (New York: Vintage, 1999), 294.
. John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty (New York: Capricorn Books, 1960), 255.
. Alister McGrath, Mere Theology: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind (London: SPCK, 2010).
. For my own extended engagement with Lewis, see especially Alister E. McGrath, C. S. Lewis—A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013); The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
. C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?,” in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, ed. Lesley Walmsley (London: Collins, 2000), 21.
. José Ortega y Gasset, “Ideas y creencias,” in Obras Completas, vol. 5, 1932–1940 (Madrid: Fundación José Ortega y Gasset, 2006), 661.
. Ortega, “Ideas y creencias,” 665. Ortega here clearly hints at Acts 17:28.
. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), 73.
. See the two classic works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (London: SCM Press, 2015) and The Cost of Discipleship (London: SCM Press, 2015).
. See Darren Webb, “Modes of Hoping,” History of the Human Sciences 20, no. 3 (2007): 65–83; “Pedagogies of Hope,” Studies in Philosophy and Education 32 (2013): 397–414.
. John Macmurray, Persons in Relation (London: Faber and Faber, 1961), 171.
Chapter 1 The Lord Is My Light
. For excellent explorations of this theme, see John R. W. Stott, Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life (Leicester: InterVarsity, 1973); James W. Sire, Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2000).
. The German term Weltanschauung, from which we get our English word “worldview,” means “a perception of the world.” For comment, see Paul G. Hiebert, Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008).
. See Hans Blumenberg, “Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation,” in Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision, ed. David Michael Levin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 30–62.
. Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think? (London: SPCK, 1963).
. See, for example, Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (London: SPCK, 2007).
. Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, 2nd ed. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1961), xiv.
. There are many points at which Russell explicitly identifies himself as an agnostic, in that he regarded the question of God to lie beyond proof: see especially Bertrand Russell, Essays in Skepticism (New York: Philosophical Library, 1963), 83–84; Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind (London: Barker, 1960), 20. However, Russell was prepared to allow that he was an atheist in the uncritical popular sense of that term.
. Austin Farrer, “The Christian Apologist,” in Light on C. S. Lewis, ed. Jocelyn Gibb (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965), 26.
. For a penetrating critique of the evangelical failure to engage adequately with such intellectual and cultural questions, see Mark A. Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).
. See especially Walter Schmithals, The Theology of the First Christians (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997), 122–23, 146–51. See further Raymond Pickett, The Cross in Corinth: The Social Significance of the Death of Jesus (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1997), 213–16; Edward Adams and David G. Horrell, eds, Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004).
. See Mark McIntosh, “Faith, Reason and the Mind of Christ,” in Reason and the Reasons of Faith, ed. Paul J. Griffiths and Reinhart Hütter (New York: T&T Clark, 2005), 119–42.
. This is a major theme in Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986).
. C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?,” in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, ed. Lesley Walmsley (London: Collins, 2000), 21.
. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions 4.15.25. A useful account of this idea in English can be found in Mary T. Clark, Augustine (London: Continuum, 2005), 13–25.
. For the development of this idea, see Steven Marrone, The Light of Thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century (Leiden: Brill, 2001).
. Henry Miller, On Writing (New York: New Directions, 1964), 37.
. This ode is found in the preface to Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women; see The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Walter W. Skeat, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900), 58–76.
. Michael Lackey, “‘God’s Grandeur’: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Reply to the Speculative Atheist,” Victorian Poetry 39 (2001): 83–90.
. A point emphasized by John Polkinghorne, Science and Christian Belief (London: SPCK, 1994).
. Paul Davies, The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning (London: Penguin, 1992), 77.
. Albert Einstein, “Physics and Reality” (1936), in Ideas and Opinions (New York: Bonanza, 1954), 292.
. John Polkinghorne, Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding (London: SPCK, 1988), 20–21. More recently, see John C. Polkinghorne, “Physics and Metaphysics in a Trinitarian Perspective,” Theology and Science 1 (2003): 33–49.
. Robin Collins, “A Scientific Argument for the Existence of God: The Fine-Tuning Design Argument,” in Reason for the Hope Within, ed. Michael J. Murray (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), 47–75.
. See, for example, Rodney D. Holder, God, the Multiverse, and Everything: Modern Cosmology and the Argument from Design (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
. Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2009).
. Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 28.
. Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution, 87–89.
. See the critical analysis in Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier, and Douglas V. Porpora, Transcendence: Critical Realism and God (London: Routledge, 2004), 12–13.
Chapter 2 Belief
. I have made use of the ideas set out in this chapter in several of my books, especially Alister McGrath, Faith and the Creeds (London: SPCK, 2013); Alister McGrath, The Landscape of Faith: An Explorer’s Guide to the Christian Creeds (London: SPCK, 2018).
. Letter to Edward Sackville-West, quoted in Michael De-la-Noy, Eddy: The Life of Edward Sackville-West (London: Bodley Head, 1988), 237.
. Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (New York: New Directions, 1957), 25.
. John M. Russell, From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), 73.
. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), §610.
. John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, iii, 4.
. Catechetical Lectures 5.12, quoted in “Cyril of Jerusalem on the Role of the Creeds,” in The Christian Theology Reader, ed. Alister E. McGrath, 5th ed. (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2017), 78.
. “The Elixir,” in The Works of George Herbert, ed. F. E. Hutchinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941), 184.
. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, book 1, chapter 3; my translation.
Chapter 3 Habits of the Christian Mind
. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 165.
. See the rich material assembled in Mark J. Boda and Gordon T. Smith, eds., Repentance in Christian Theology (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2006).
. For this analogy, see Alister McGrath, The Landscape of Faith: An Explorer’s Guide to the Christian Faith (London: SPCK, 2018).
. Mary Healy, “Knowledge of the Mystery: A Study of Pauline Epistemology,” in The Bible and Epistemology: Biblical Soundings on the Knowledge of God, ed. Mary Healy and Robin Parry (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2007), 134–58.
. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 88.5.5.
. Rowan Williams, “Teaching the Truth,” in Living Tradition: Affirming Catholicism in the Anglican Church, ed. Jeffrey John (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1991), 41.
. See Stanley Hauerwas, Vision and Virtue: Essays in Christian Ethical Reflection (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1974).
. Stanley Hauerwas, “The Demands of a Truthful Story: Ethics and the Pastoral Task,” Chicago Studies 21, no. 1 (1982): 65–66.
. See Jennifer A. Herdt, “Alasdair MacIntyre’s ‘Rationality of Traditions’ and Tradition-Transcendental Standards of Justification,” Journal of Religion 78, no. 4 (1998): 524–46; Jean Porter, “Tradition in the Recent Work of Alasdair MacIntyre,” in Alasdair MacIntyre, ed. Mark C. Murphy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 38–69.
. Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983), 101–2. The classic idea of the polis (city-state) offers an illuminating way of developing Hauerwas’s approach: see Arne Rasmusson, The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas (Lund: Lund University Press, 1994). Hauerwas later picked up this point himself: Stanley Hauerwas, In Good Company: The Church as Polis (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).
. Austin Farrer, The End of Man (London: SPCK, 1973), 52.
. I here echo Lesslie Newbigin’s understanding of the mission of the church: see Lesslie Newbigin, A Word in Season: Perspectives on Christian Mission (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994), 33.
. Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), 147–74.
. Fish, Is There a Text, 141.
. For the context of this phrase, see Rowan Williams, Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel, 2nd ed. (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2002), 61–62.
. Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), 23.
. See here especially Alister E. McGrath, Re-Imagining Nature: The Promise of Christian Natural Theology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).
. William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, vol. 1 (London: Parker, 1847), 1.
. N. R. Hanson, Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961).
. Andrew Louth, “Theology, Contemplation, and the University,” Studia Theologica 1, no. 2 (2003): 66.
. Hare’s personal reminiscences, as they touch on this theme, are instructive: Richard M. Hare, “A Philosophical Autobiography,” Utilitas 14, no. 3 (2002): 269–305.
. Iris Murdoch, “The Darkness of Practical Reason,” in Existentialists and Mystics, ed. Peter Conradi (London: Chatto, 1998), 198.
. I borrow this phrase from Kenneth Kirk’s 1949 Charles Gore Memorial Foundation Lecture: see Kenneth E. Kirk, The Coherence of Christian Doctrine (London: SPCK, 1950), 1. Kirk attributes it to Charles Gore.
. I here pick up on some key themes from the opening sections of Augustine’s de doctrina Christiana, most notably the ideas of the modus inveniendi (discovering what is to be understood) and the modus proferendi (communicating what is to be understood).
. For the important sociological notion of a “plausibility structure,” see Peter L. Berger, A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity (New York: Free Press, 1992), 125–26.
. Gerhard Ebeling (1912–2001) is one of many theologians to point out how the Christian tradition enables a “new experience of experience.” His protest against the “Erfahrungsdeficit in der Theologie” merits attention here: see Gerhard Ebeling, “Schrift und Erfahrung als Quelle theologischer Aussagen,” Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 75, no. 1 (1978): 99–116.
. Rowan Williams, On Christian Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), 31.
. For this approach in the parables of Jesus of Nazareth, see Marcus J. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith (San Francisco: HarperOne, 1994), 74.
. Richard Dawkins, A Devil’s Chaplain: Selected Writings (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003), 19.
. On this notion, see Ian James Kidd, “Receptivity to Mystery: Cultivation, Loss, and Scientism,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4, no. 3 (2012): 51–68.
. This idea, as set out in Newman’s Grammar of Assent, is helpfully explored in Anthony W. Keaty, “Newman’s Account of the Real Apprehension of God: The Need for a Subjective Context,” Downside Review 114, no. 394 (1996): 1–18.
Chapter 4 Books and the Discipleship of the Mind
. Francis Bacon, Aphorisms and Apothegms (London: Scott, 1894), 204.
. Marcel Proust, La prisonnière (Paris: Gallimard, 1925), 69; my translation.
. C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 137, 140–41.
. C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 249.
. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 221–22.
. Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1946), xiv.
. C. S. Lewis, “On the Reading of Old Books,” in Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church, ed. Lesley Walmsley (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 440.
. T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” in Four Quartets (Orlando: Harcourt, 1971), 14.
. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 197.
. Neville Coghill, “The Approach to English,” in Light on C. S. Lewis, ed. Jocelyn Gibb (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965), 52.
. Alister McGrath, Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).
. Pek van Andel and Danièle Bourcier, De la serendipité dans la science, la technique, l’art et le droit: Leçons de l’inattendu (Paris: Hermann, 2013), 293.
Chapter 5 The Balcony and the Road
. William Temple, opening speech at the Second World Conference on Faith and Order, Edinburgh, 1937, available at https://nanopdf.com/download/william-temple-the-moravian-church_pdf#; quote at p. 4.
. Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, trans. David F. Swenson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1941), 182.
. John A. Mackay, A Preface to Christian Theology (London: Nisbet, 1941), 3. I apply Mackay’s approach elsewhere in my works, such as Alister McGrath, The Landscape of Faith: An Explorer’s Guide to the Christian Faith (London: SPCK, 2018), 42–44.
. Mackay, Preface to Christian Theology, 20.
. Mackay, Preface to Christian Theology, 29–54.
. See, for example, John A. Mackay, The Other Spanish Christ: A Study in the Spiritual History of Spain and South America (New York: Macmillan, 1932). For a biography of Mackay, see John Mackay Metzger, The Hand and the Road: The Life and Times of John A. Mackay (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010).
. Mackay, Preface to Christian Theology, 29.
. Mackay, Preface to Christian Theology, 30.
. Mackay, Preface to Christian Theology, 30.
. Mackay, Preface to Christian Theology, 45.
. The title of the original version was “Suite du quatrième livre de l’Odyssée d’Homère ou les avantures de Télémaque fils d’Ulysse.”
. These are set out in C. A. Coulson, Science and Christian Belief (London: Oxford University Press, 1955), 97–102.
. Abraham Pais, J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 90.
. For my reflections on Coulson, see Alister McGrath, Enriching Our Vision of Reality: Theology and the Natural Sciences in Dialogue (London: SPCK, 2016), 27–41.
. I have already noted Coulson, Science and Christian Belief. Two other works that I found very helpful were Charles A. Coulson, Christianity in an Age of Science (London: Oxford University Press, 1953), and Coulson, Science and the Idea of God (London: Epworth, 1960).
. Mackay, Preface to Christian Theology, 183.
Chapter 6 The Creative Mind
. Peter R. Dear, The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 173.
. Keith Yandell, Philosophy of Religion: A Contemporary Introduction (London: Routledge, 1999), 16.
. Robert A. Emmons, The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns: Motivation and Spirituality in Personality (New York: Guilford Press, 1999).
. Dariusz Krok, “The Role of Meaning in Life within the Relations of Religious Coping and Psychological Well-Being,” Journal of Religion and Health 54, no. 6 (2015): 2292–308.
. Alexander Wood, In Pursuit of Truth: A Comparative Study in Science and Religion (London: Student Christian Movement, 1927), 102.
. Charles S. Peirce, Collected Papers, vol. 5, ed. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960), 172.
. Daniel J. McKaughan, “From Ugly Duckling to Swan: C. S. Peirce, Abduction, and the Pursuit of Scientific Theories,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44, no. 3 (2008): 446–68.
. Gerhard Schurz, “Patterns of Abduction,” Synthese 164, no. 2 (2008): 201–34, especially 205.
. Claudio Rapezzi, Roberto Ferrari, and Angelo Branzi, “White Coats and Fingerprints: Diagnostic Reasoning in Medicine and Investigative Methods of Fictional Detectives,” British Medical Journal 331 (2005): 1491–94.
. Dorothy L. Sayers, Les Origines du Roman Policier: A Wartime Wireless Talk to the French, trans. Suzanne Bray (Hurstpierpoint, UK: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 2003), 14.
. William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, vol. 2 (London: John W. Parker, 1847), 36.
. Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968), 155.
. Sayers defends herself well on this point; see Dorothy L. Sayers, “Aristotle on Detective Fiction,” English: Journal of the English Association 1, no. 1 (1936): 23–35.
. Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder,” Atlantic Monthly, December 1944, 53–59.
. Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker (London: Methuen, 1941), 145–74, especially 150–51.
. Catherine M. Kenney, “The Nine Tailors and the Riddle of the Universe” and “Gaudy Night and the Mysteries of the Human Heart,” in The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990), 53–80, 81–119.
. Barbara Reynolds, ed., The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time (Hurstpierpoint, UK: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 2002), 97.
. Sayers, Mind of the Maker, 171–73.
. Sayers, Mind of the Maker, 15–24.
. Sayers, Mind of the Maker, 172–73.
. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914–1916 (New York: Harper, 1961), 75.
. See M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Keeley, Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, 8th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007), 196.
. See especially Robert J. Louden, The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
. Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos? (London: Methuen, 1947), 33.
. Sayers, Creed or Chaos?, 24.
. Sayers, Mind of the Maker, 25–36.
. Sayers, Mind of the Maker, 97–99.
. Dorothy L. Sayers, “Creative Mind,” in Unpopular Opinions (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1947), 49.
. The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, vol. 13 (London: James Duncan, 1830), 29.
Chapter 7 C. S. Lewis on the Reasonableness of the Christian Faith
. Rowan D. Williams, The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia (London: SPCK, 2012).
. Donald Baillie, St Andrews Citizen, June 29, 1946, quoted in Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 43–44.
. For further details, see Alister E. McGrath, C. S. Lewis—A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013).
. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 197.
. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 197.
. Dante, Paradiso, canto 33, lines 55–56; my translation.
. G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1993), 105.
. Austin Farrer, “The Christian Apologist,” in Light on C. S. Lewis, ed. Jocelyn Gibb (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965), 37.
. For the narrative, see C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader” (London: HarperCollins, 1994), 91–92.
. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 267.
. For a detailed discussion, see Alister E. McGrath, “A Gleam of Divine Truth: The Concept of Myth in Lewis’s Thought,” in The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 55–82.
. C. S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory,” in Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church, ed. Lesley Walmsley (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 98.
. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory,” 98.
. Fiodore Dostoyevsky, “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” in A Disgraceful Affair: Stories, trans. David Magarshack (London: Harper Perennial, 2009), 172.
. Russell to Colette O’Niel, October 23, 1916, in The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years 1914–1970, ed. Nicholas Griffin (London: Routledge, 2001), 85.
. Katharine Tait, My Father Bertrand Russell (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 189.
. For what follows, see C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 135–36.
. Lewis’s apologetic method is often misunderstood. For a correction of earlier accounts of his approach, see Alister E. McGrath, “Reason, Experience, and Imagination: Lewis’s Apologetic Method,” in The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis, 129–46.
. C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 25.
. G. K. Chesterton, “The Return of the Angels,” Daily News, March 14, 1903.
. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 21.
. C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?,” in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, ed. Lesley Walmsley (London: Collins, 2000), 21.
Chapter 8 Listening and Engaging
. The best study remains Timothy Dudley-Smith, John Stott: A Biography, 2 vols. (Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1999).
. John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2008).
. I served as curate at St. Leonard’s Church, Wollaton, Nottingham, from 1980 to 1983.
. John Stott, The Contemporary Christian: An Urgent Plea for Double Listening (Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1992), 13.
. See, for example, the discussion of Gadamer’s notion of Horizontverschmelzung (a “fusion of horizons”) in the influential study of Anthony C. Thiselton, The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description with Special Reference to Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein (Exeter: Paternoster, 1980). Stott knew this text well and referred to it often—for example, in reflecting on the task of the preacher. See John R. W. Stott, I Believe in Preaching (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982), 137–38.
. Stott, Contemporary Christian, 13.
. Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World, 285.
. Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World, 64–65.
. I consider the issue of the significance of the identity of audiences for early Christian apologetics, looking closely at sermons in Acts directed toward Jews, Greeks, and Romans, in my four W. H. Griffith Thomas Lectures, given at Dallas Theological Seminary during February 1997. These were published as a series with the running title “Biblical Models for Apologetics” in Bibliotheca Sacra 155 (1998): 3–10, 131–38, 259–65, 387–93.
. Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World, 65–66.
. Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World, 10.
. For my own reflections on this process of reflection, see Alister E. McGrath, Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification, 3rd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
. For Stott’s engagement with secularism, see Alister Chapman, “Secularisation and the Ministry of John R. W. Stott at All Souls, Langham Place, 1950–1970,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 56, no. 3 (2005): 496–513.
. Stott, Contemporary Christian, 27–28.
. Michael Ramsey, Image Old and New (London: SPCK, 1963), 14.
. Stott, Contemporary Christian, 222.
. Alister Chapman, Godly Ambition: John Stott and the Evangelical Movement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 116.
. John Stott, “Relevant Biblical Teaching: The Art of Double Listening,” interview by Derek Morris, Ministry (January 1997): 8.
. Chapman, Godly Ambition, 76.
. John Stott, Between Two Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982), 154.
. Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World, 67–68.
. Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World, 68.
. Stott himself drew on this title in one of his finest works: John Stott, The Incomparable Christ (Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 2001). This work is based on Stott’s four millennial lectures at All Souls, Langham Place.
. See, for example, Alister McGrath, The Landscape of Faith: An Explorer’s Guide to the Christian Faith (London: SPCK, 2018).
. Emil Brunner, “Toward a Missionary Theology,” Christian Century 66, no. 27 (1949): 816.
Chapter 9 J. I. Packer on Theology and Spirituality
. Alister E. McGrath, J. I. Packer: A Biography (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997).
. Alister E. McGrath, C. S. Lewis—A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013); McGrath, Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
. J. I. Packer, “Keswick and the Reformed Doctrine of Sanctification,” review of Steven Barabas, So Great Salvation: The History and Message of the Keswick Convention, The Evangelical Quarterly 27 (1955): 167.
. J. I. Packer, “The Comfort of Conservatism,” in Power Religion, ed. Michael Horton (Chicago: Moody, 1992), 283–99.
. J. I. Packer, “On from Orr: The Cultural Crisis, Rational Realism, and Incarnational Ontology,” Crux 32, no. 3 (1996): 12–26. I personally regard this as one of Packer’s finest pieces of writing.
. J. I. Packer, Truth and Power: The Place of Scripture in the Christian Life (Wheaton: Harold Shaw, 1996), 117.
. See further Alister McGrath, “Engaging the Great Tradition: Evangelical Theology and the Role of Tradition,” in Evangelical Futures: A Conversation on Theological Method, ed. John G. Stackhouse (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000), 139–58.
. C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 137, 140–41.
. J. I. Packer, “An Introduction to Systematic Spirituality,” Crux 26 (1990): 6.
. J. I. Packer, Knowing God (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975), 41.
. J. I. Packer, interview with Amy Anderson, Regent College website, accessed May 23, 2018, http://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/news/2016/ji-packer-still-teaching-and-loving-it.
Chapter 10 Truth, Mystery, and Darkness
. Locke to Mr. Molyneux, January 10, 1697–98 in The Works of John Locke, vol. 9, 11th ed. (London: Otridge and Son, 1812), 447.
. John Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding in Locke’s Essays: An Essay concerning Human Understanding and a Treatise on the Conduct of Understanding (Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell, 1854), 4.3.29, p. 376.
. Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, 2nd ed., ed. Mark Pattison (Oxford: Clarendon, 1871), epistle 2, line 10, p. 37.
. Pope, Essay on Man, epistle 2, line 1, p. 37.
. Quoted in Richard Bernstein, “Once More Admired Than Bought, a Writer Finally Basks in Success,” New York Times, May 15, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/15/books/once-more-admired-than-bought-a-writer-finally-basks-in-success.html. See further Brian McIlroy, “Pattern in Chaos: John Banville’s Scientific Art,” Colby Quarterly 31, no. 1 (1995): 74–80.
. Werner Heisenberg, Die Ordnung der Wirklichkeit (Munich: Piper Verlag, 1989), 44; my translation.
. Augustine, Sermon 117; my translation.
Chapter 11 Intelligibility and Coherence
. Peter B. Medawar and Jean Medawar, The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology (London: Wildwood House, 1977), 171.
. José Ortega y Gasset, “El origen deportivo del estado,” Citius, Altius, Fortius 9, no. 1–4 (1967): 259; my translation.
. Ortega, “El origen deportivo del estado,” 259–60.
. C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?,” in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, ed. Lesley Walmsley (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 21.
. John Donne, The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World, line 213, in The Epithalamions, Anniversaries, and Epicedes, ed. W. Milgate (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), 28.
. Virginia Woolf, “A Sketch of the Past,” in Moments of Being, ed. Jeanne Schulkind, 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1985), 72.
. Dante, Paradiso, canto 33, lines 85–90.
. Hermann Hesse, “Die Sehnsucht unser Zeit nach einer Weltanschauung,” Uhu 2 (1926): 3–14.
. Nancy Cartwright, The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
. C. S. Lewis, Christian Reflections (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1967), 65.
. John Keats, “Lamia,” line 230, in The Complete Poems, Penguin Classics, 3rd ed. (London: Penguin, 1988), 431.
. Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By (London: Routledge, 2004), 39–40.
. Mary Midgley, “Dover Beach,” unpublished essay quoted in Nelson Rivera, The Earth Is Our Home: Mary Midgley’s Critique and Reconstruction of Evolution and Its Meanings (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2010), 179n21.
. Mary Midgley, Wisdom, Information, and Wonder: What Is Knowledge For? (London: Routledge, 1995), 199.
. As argued by Roy F. Baumeister, Meanings of Life (New York: Guilford, 1991).
. Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 10.
. Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (London: Headline, 1995), vi.
Chapter 12 Hope in the Darkness
. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966), 199.
Chapter 13 The Hope of Heaven
. C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?,” in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, ed. Lesley Walmsley (London: Collins, 2000), 21.
. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 134.
. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 137.
. C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (New York: Collier, 1986), 162.
. Lewis, Last Battle, 158.
. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 137.
. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 134.