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Dallas Willard
Dr. Dallas Albert Willard (September 4, 1935 – May 8, 2013) was an American philosopher, professor, and influential Christian author.
Summary
This site quotes Dallas Willard 2 times across 2 books, and lists 8 works.
- Lived 1935 to 2013.
- Quoted here most in John: 1 of 2.
Dallas Willard
- Lived
- 1935 to 2013
- Tradition
- Southern Baptist
2 of 2 quotations
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By a practiced abiding in his words we come to know the truth and the truth does, sure enough, make us free.
John 8:31–36 So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?” Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. BSB
It means that I do it in behalf of him. I do it in place of him.
Acknowledging God in All We Do (Westmont College chapel talk), 1998
Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. BSB
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This site quotes Dallas Willard 2 times across 2 books.
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Dr. Dallas Albert Willard (September 4, 1935 – May 8, 2013) was an American philosopher, professor, and influential Christian author. Born in Buffalo, Missouri, raised in Southern Baptist context, he served on the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Philosophy for 48 years (1965–2013), retiring as full professor. He was Director of the School of Philosophy from 1982–1985. His academic specialty was phenomenology, particularly the work of Edmund Husserl, whose major writings he was the first to translate into English (Logical Investigations, Philosophy of Arithmetic). He held a Th.M. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1957) and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1964). His Christian-author career — substantial alongside his philosophical career — produced foundational works in spiritual-formation and discipleship: In Search of Guidance (1984; revised as Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God 1999, expanded 2012), The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988), The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God (1998; Christianity Today Book of the Year), Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ (2002), Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge (2009), and the posthumously-completed The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus (2015) and Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God (2014). He was associated with the Renovaré spiritual-formation movement (founded by Richard Foster) as substantial intellectual-and-pastoral resource.
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Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
1984 as In Search of Guidance; revised 1999; expanded 2012
Foundational architectural articulation of conversational-hearing-God methodology. Taxonomy-named stream architect for ★★★ hearing-god.method-and-validation.
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The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
1988
Foundational articulation of classical Christian spiritual-disciplines tradition for late-20th-c. evangelical readership. Architectural for Renovaré stream and broader contemporary spiritual-formation literature.
Not quoted on this site yet
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
1998, CT Book of the Year 1999
Willard's signature articulation of kingdom-of-God-as-present-life framework rooted in Sermon on the Mount. Christianity Today Book of the Year 1999; substantively shaped late-20th-c. evangelical kingdom-theology discourse.
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Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
2002
Willard's articulation of the believer's fundamental-components transformation framework — will, mind, body, heart/spirit, social context, soul as the integrated whole transformed under the Spirit's work.
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Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge
2009
Willard's most-direct academic-philosophical engagement with epistemology — defending spiritual knowledge as legitimate knowledge against the secular-academic privatization of religious truth-claims.
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The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship
2006
Willard's diagnostic articulation of evangelical reduction of the Great Commission to "make converts" rather than Jesus's actual command to "make disciples."
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The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus
2015, posthumous
Willard's articulation of apologetic methodology rooted in Jesus's gentle-but-substantive engagement; companion to Knowing Christ Today.
Not quoted on this site yet
Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God
2014, posthumous, with John Ortberg
Willard's last sustained teaching project; final articulation of the kingdom-and-eternal-life framework.
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