Journal: Reformation and Revival
Volume: RAR 03:3 (Summer 1994)
Article: Annotated Bibliography
Author: Anonymous

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Annotated Bibliography

Adler, Mortimer J. Intellect: Mind Over Matter. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990. One of the most prolific and popular philosophers of our time, Adler almost never disappoints. This is a book Christian leaders should read and carefully consider.

Blamires, Harry. The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think? Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Publications, 1978 (1963). A noted British thinker and author offers one of the very best diagnoses of the absence of intellect in modern Christendom. Asks the right questions and offers significant answers for a secularized age. A must read for the serious Christian leader.

Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Amazingly a best-seller in 1987–88, this book from inside the establishment shows how higher education has failed modern society significantly. Great on analysis but will demonstrate how unbelievers can often see the problems but not offer meaningful solutions.

Boice, James Montgomery. Mind Renewal in a Mindless Age. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1993. A popularly written treatment by a model expositor who always gives the reader the sense of the text without being unnecessarily technical. See the review of this title in this issue.

Bronowski, J. and Mazlish, Bruce. The Western Intellectual Tradition. New York: Harper & Row, 1960. A study of the development of ideas from the Renaissance to the opening of the nineteenth century. A great book in terms of its history of intellectual life and development.

Colson, Charles. Against the Night: Living in the New Dark Ages. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Publications, 1989. The

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well-known writer shows how the West has declined into moral, intellectual and spiritual darkness. A trenchant analysis.

Fussell, Paul. Bad, or the Dumbing of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. A humorous look at how phony, clumsy, boring solutions and ideas can pass for good in modern culture.

Guinness, Os. The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith. New York: The Free Press, 1993. A profound analysis of our present “crisis of cultural authority” that offers sane and constructive solutions.

Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1963. The winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, this is one of the three or four most important studies of the American mind ever written. If you are interested in understanding American thought in particular...