Lewis M. Andrews Ph.D. - Living Spiritually in the Material World: The Lost Wisdom for Finding Inner Peace, Satisfaction, and Lasting Enthusiasm in Earthly Pursuits

Advance Praise for
Living Spiritually in a Material World

Before shelves were warping under the weight of self-help books, before the caring industries were promising happiness via therapy or pills, many Americans sought guidance and wisdom fromof all peopleChristian college presidents. Lewis Andrews unearths the story of how these religious, educational, and social leaders came to be spiritual instructors, and he shows how their advice can still help us lead lives of greater courage, resilience, and grace.

Adam Keiper, Books & Arts editor, The Weekly Standard

Living Spiritually in the Material World is a surprising and delightful book. Lewis Andrews has done us a great service by discovering and reflecting on classic insights that will help us, even today, to live with spiritual meaning in our everyday lives.

Dr. Mark Roberts, executive director, Max De Pree Center for Leadership, Fuller Theological Seminary

Few appreciate the connection between higher education and the higher authority of the divine, but now comes Lewis Andrews with this fascinating study of early college presidents in U.S. history and how their deep faith nurtured their work as our nations top educators. They not only educated our Founders; they also provided useful guidance for spiritual wisdom which Andrews translates for todays modern audience.

Mike McCurry, professor/director, Wesley Theological Seminary and former State Department/White House spokesman (199398)

Living Spiritually in the Material World goes beyond self-help to real personal transformation.

Tony Ingle, president, General Dynamics Faith and Hope Employee Resource Group

With wisdom and spiritual teachings from Americas earliest college presidents, Lew Andrews has given us a thoughtful book of lessons to help make sense of todays turbulent and confusing times.

Dr. Laura Forese, chief operating officer, New York Presbyterian Hospital

Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls was written by the prophet Jeremiah but also accurately describes Dr. Lewis Andrewss new book Living Spiritually in the Material World . This uniquely important work describes spiritual wisdom from a different age in our countrys history. Andrews presents the story of a group of men and women who truly understood how to live out their faith through their vocational calling, thereby shaping the ethical foundations of our nation for over three hundred years. A must read for those who want to find their way back to this important path. This is a very important part to the faith and work story that has not been told.

Hugh Whelchel, executive director of the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics

Living Spiritually in the Material World is very important; dealing with faith in the US specifically from a cultural and historical perspective. Well researched and thoughtful efforts to bring to light what we can all sense but didnt have the objective perspective.

Jeff Rogers, chairman, OneAccord Capital

A willed ignorance of the importance of faith weakens our democracy. In Living Spiritually in the Material World , Lewis Andrews sketches out what could make our communities stronger: faith, community, civility.

Amity Shlaes, former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board and author of Coolidge

An engaging and enlightening book that combines the moral and spiritual wisdom of previous generations of college and university presidents in America with findings of contemporary psychology. The author combines spiritual and theological reflection with substantive analysis, as he seeks to address ten specific issues related to Living Spiritually in the Material World .

Dr. Corwin Smidt, senior fellow, Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics

At a time of national moral decline, when there is growing skepticism about the value of our militantly secular and hideously expensive institutions of higher education, Lewis Andrewss Living Spiritually in the Material World will turn your head with a dazzling and hopeful insight. Higher education in America used to be one of our countrys principal sources of moral and spiritual wisdom, and perhaps most amazing of all, it was the presidents of American colleges and universities who provided most of that wisdom. I knew this in a general way before reading his bookbut I was bowled over by the volume, the passion, and the eloquence with which our countrys earliest collegiate leaders made the case for the moral education of their charges. Could higher education experience a moral renaissance, if something resembling that moral center at the top were to be restored? This book strongly suggests that the answer might be Yes.

Prof. Wilfred M. McClay, G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma

For nearly four centuries, U.S. colleges and universities were led by clergymen presidents. Dr. Lewis Andrews draws on his deep knowledge of these presidents lectures and sermons to explore their roles as leading public intellectuals and teachers of moral philosophy. At a time when higher education is often seen as preparation for career, in Living Spiritually in the Material World , Dr. Andrews reminds us that colleges and universities should also prepare students to be of service to their community and engage in lifes deepest questions.

Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, director, Campus Free Expression Project, Bipartisan Policy Center

Living Spiritually in the Material World is timely, fresh, honest, deep, and arresting. It brilliantly recovers, for our benefit today, the moral wisdom of Christian college presidents in centuries past, before American education lost its way by claiming to be value neutral. An unlikely page-turner, deftly blending history, biography, theology, psychology, storytelling, social commentary, and good counsel. A book to read, reread, mark up, ponder on, and live by.

John Andrews (no relation to author), former president, Colorado State Senate

There was a time when students heard their college president share some version of Augustines prayer to God: you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. Dr. Lewis M. Andrews bemoans the fact that such spiritual and psychological wisdom is rarely heard in the academy today, and shows how modern studies bear witness to the need for and the benefit of such a message.

Dr. David L. Weeks, dean of the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University

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The Lost Wisdom for Finding Inner Peace, Satisfaction, and Lasting Enthusiasm in Earthly Pursuits

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