Eternal Living

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Eternal Living

Edited by Gary W. Moon

Contributions by John Ortberg, Jane Willard, Richard J. Foster, James Bryan Smith and J. P. Moreland

Featuring Dallas Willard

Reflections on Dallas Willard’s Teaching on Faith and Formation

Dallas Willard spent his life making eternal living concrete for his friends. With his unexpected passing in 2013, the world lost a brilliant mind. The wide breadth of his impact inspired friends, family, colleagues, students and leaders of the church to gather their reflections on this celebrated yet humble theologian and philosopher.

Richard Foster, a friend for over forty years, writes of Dallas: “He possessed in his person a spiritual formation into Christlikeness that was simply astonishing to all who were around him. Profound character formation had transpired in his body and mind and spirit until love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control were at the very center of the deep habit-structures of his life. He exhibited a substantively transformed life. Dallas was simply soaked in the presence of the living Christ.”

Curated by Gary Moon, director of the Dallas Willard Center, this medley of Dallas’s wise teaching and lived model of Christlikeness—as well as snapshots and “Dallas-isms”—will move and motivate readers. Whether influenced by him as a family member, close friend, advisor, professor, philosopher, minister or reformer, contributors bring refreshing insight into not only his ideas and what shaped him, but also to his contagious theology of grace and joy.

Contributors include:

• Richard J. Foster
• Jane Willard
• P. Moreland
• John Ortberg
• James Bryan Smith
• Alan Fadling
• Ruth Haley Barton
• and dozens more

Willard served on the boards of the C.S. Lewis Foundation and Biola University, and was a member of numerous evaluation committees for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. He received bachelor’s degrees from both Tennessee Temple College and Baylor University and a graduate degree at Baylor University, as well as a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Philosophy and the History of Science.

2014/12

Hardcover