Alister E. McGrath - Mere Discipleship: Growing in Wisdom and Hope

. 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.

. Jos Ortega y Gasset, Ideas y creencias, in Obras Completas , vol. 5, 19321940 (Madrid: Fundacin Jos 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): 6583; Pedagogies of Hope, Studies in Philosophy and Education 32 (2013): 397414.

. 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), 3062.

. 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), 8384; 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), 12223, 14651. See further Raymond Pickett, The Cross in Corinth: The Social Significance of the Death of Jesus (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1997), 21316; 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 Htter (New York: T&T Clark, 2005), 11942.

. 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), 1325.

. 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 Chaucers Legend of Good Women ; see The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer , ed. Walter W. Skeat, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900), 5876.

. Michael Lackey, Gods Grandeur: Gerard Manley Hopkins Reply to the Speculative Atheist, Victorian Poetry 39 (2001): 8390.

. A point emphasized by John Polkinghorne, Science and Christian Belief (London: SPCK, 1994).