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Spiritual Immaturity
Yet in spite of these notable causes for hope, the fact is that
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Editor's Note
This is the fourth in a series of four articles delivered by the author as the W H.
Griffith Thomas Lectures at Dallas Theological Seminary, November 5-8, 1985.
Notes
1 Frank E. Gaebelein, The Pattern of God's Truth: Problems of Integration in
Christian Education (New York: Oxford University Press, 1954); Harry Blamires,
The Christian Mind (London: SPCK, 1966); John R. W. Stott, Your Mind Matters
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1973).
2 Leslie R. Keylock, "The Renaissance of Evangelical Protestantism," Publishers
Weekly, Sept. 27, 1985, pp. 44-47.
3 Arthur E Holmes, All Truth Is God's Truth (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity
Press, 1983); Arthur E Holmes, ed., The Making of a Christian Mind (Downers
Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1985); Nicholas Wolterstorff, Educatingfor Responsi-
ble Action (Grand Rapids: CSI Publications and Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,
1980); Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, eds., Faith and Rationality:
Reason and Belief in God (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1983);
Ronald H. Nash, Christian Faith and Historical Understanding (Grand Rapids:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1984). Also the four articles in this series in
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expanded form are to be published by Multnomah Press under the title Thinking
like a Christian.
4 Charles Malik, A Christian Critique of the University (Downers Grove, IL:
InterVarsity Press), p. 29.
5 Ibid., pp. 51-52.
6 Nathan O. Hatch, "Evangelical Colleges and the Challenge of Christian Think-
ing," The Reformed Journal 35 (September 1985):12.
7 Frank E. Gaebelein, Christian Education in a Democracy (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1951), p. 47.
8 D. Elton Trueblood, Toward a Christian Philosophy of Higher Education, ed.
John Paul von Grueningen (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1957), p. 167.
9 "Living through an Apocalypse," Christianity Today, August 16, 1974, p. 4.
10 William Hiram Foulkes, "Take Thou Our Minds, Dear Lord," Present Day
Hymns and Why They Were Written, comp. John Barnes Pratt (New York: A. S.
Barnes, 1940), pp. 42-43.
11 "Take Thou Our Minds, Dear Lord," The Hymnal (Philadelphia: Presbyterian
Board of Christian Education, 1933).
12 The writer wishes to express gratitude to his colleague, John M. Kenney,
chairman of the Bible department at The Stony Brook School, who was an encour-
agement in the preparation of these articles by his thoughtful criticism.