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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.
Works on this site: 1984 to 2015.
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In their own words
It means that I do it in behalf of him. I do it in place of him.
Dallas Willard· Acknowledging God in All We Do (Westmont College chapel talk), 1998Southern Baptist
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.
By a practiced abiding in his words we come to know the truth and the truth does, sure enough, make us free.
Dallas Willard· Why Bother With Discipleship? (in The Great Omission), 2006Southern Baptist
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.
About this voice
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.
8 works
What this site reads them for
| The work | Year | Quoted here |
|---|---|---|
| Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with GodFoundational architectural articulation of conversational-hearing-God methodology. Taxonomy-named stream architect for ★★★ hearing-god.method-and-validation. | 1984 | Not quoted here yet |
| The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes LivesFoundational articulation of classical Christian spiritual-disciplines tradition for late-20th-c. evangelical readership. Architectural for Renovaré stream and broader contemporary spiritual-formation literature. | 1988 | Not quoted here yet |
| The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in GodWillard'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. | 1998 | Not quoted here yet |
| Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of ChristWillard'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. | 2002 | Not quoted here yet |
| Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual KnowledgeWillard's most-direct academic-philosophical engagement with epistemology — defending spiritual knowledge as legitimate knowledge against the secular-academic privatization of religious truth-claims. | 2009 | Not quoted here yet |
| The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on DiscipleshipWillard's diagnostic articulation of evangelical reduction of the Great Commission to "make converts" rather than Jesus's actual command to "make disciples." | 2006 | Not quoted here yet |
| The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of JesusWillard's articulation of apologetic methodology rooted in Jesus's gentle-but-substantive engagement; companion to Knowing Christ Today. | 2015 | Not quoted here yet |
| Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of GodWillard's last sustained teaching project; final articulation of the kingdom-and-eternal-life framework. | 2014 | Not quoted here yet |
Where to find them
- Dallas Willard
- Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
- The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
- The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
- Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
- Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge
- The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship
- The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus
- Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God
2 quotations across 2 books