{"id":249,"date":"2004-07-10T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-10T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/07\/10\/christian-food-for-the-mind\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T19:04:00","slug":"christian-food-for-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/07\/10\/christian-food-for-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Food for the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a great book<\/a> on loving God with our mind<\/strong> by one of my favorite authors, Dr. J. P. Moreland<\/a>. Dr. Moreland<\/a> is a professor of Christian Philosophy at Talbot Seminary in Southern California<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Moreland is an excellent speaker on subjects related to the Christian faith and Christian apologetics. He also served as interim pastor at Calvary Church in Santa Ana<\/a> where we were blessed to hear him preach many times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Moreland has written an impressive number of other books<\/a> in the areas of Christian apologetics (the resurrection, atheism, worldviews and answering the Jesus Seminar), Philosophy of Science, Medical Ethics and General Christian Philosophy; including<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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– Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity<\/a>
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– Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview<\/a>
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– To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview<\/a>
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– Beyond Death: Exploring the Evidence for Immortality<\/a>
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– Immortality: The Other Side of Death<\/a>
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– Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Theists & Atheists<\/a>
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– Jesus Under Fire<\/a>
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– Three Views on Creation and Evolution<\/a>
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– The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer<\/a>
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– Naturalism : A Critical Analysis<\/a>
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– Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide<\/a>
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– Christian Perspectives on Being Human: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Integration<\/a>
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– Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics<\/a>
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– The Life and Death Debate<\/a>
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– Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation<\/a>
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– Universals, Qualities, and Quality-Instances: A Defense of Realism<\/a>
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– Universals (Central Problems of Philosophy (Montreal, Quebec).)<\/a>
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One of the great things about Dr. Moreland (and there are many of them) is that he has a science background. He has a BS in Chemistry. When Dr. Moreland writes about the philosophy of science<\/a> he knows what he is talking about nnd it is relatively rare to have a writer that is scientifically, philosophically and theologically trained. Add to that, Dr. Moreland was a pastor for a number of years. This sort of multi-disciplinarian approach yields some thoughtful writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Moreland challenges us to think more Christianly. And even when it is painful to do so, that is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a great book on loving God with our mind by one of my favorite authors, Dr. J. P. Moreland. Dr. Moreland is a professor of Christian Philosophy at Talbot Seminary in Southern California. Dr. Moreland is an excellent speaker on subjects related to the Christian faith and Christian apologetics. He also served as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}