In the world: reading and writing as a christian

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Contents
Introduction: Reading and Writing as a Christian 000
Part 1: Writing
1. Good Writing: An Introduction to Rhetoric 000
2. Invention 000
3. Structuring the Thesis 000
4. Coherence 000
5. Revision 000
6. From Working Outline to Outline 000
7. Documentation 000
Part 2: Reading
8. Defining a Worldview: Religion 000
THOMAS PAINE, The Age of Reason 000
FRANCIS CRICK, The Nature of Vitalism 000
CHARLES COLSON and NANCY PEARCEY, Worldviews in Conflict 000
HENRI J. M. NOUWEN, A Place to Stand 000
ABRAM VAN ENGEN, The Small Touch of Grace 000
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN, Men Have Forgotten God: The Templeton
Address 000
9. Living Ethically 000
CORNELIUS PLANTINGA JR., Vandalism of Shalom 000
SAINT AUGUSTINE, On Good and Evil 000
LEWIS B. SMEDES, Why Get Married? 000
ALLEN VERHEY, The Death of Infant Doe: Jesus and the Neonates, Mark
10:13/16 000
CATHY STENTZEL, A Quiet Conversion 000
JOHN DONNE, No Man Is an Island 000
10. Confrontation with Suffering 000
PHILIP YANCEY, In Defense of Pain 000
RICHARD SELZER, The Exact Location of the Soul 000
M. HOWARD RIENSTRA, Who Is in Control? 000
JUDY A. JOHNSON, My Bones Are Vexed 000
BENJAMIN S. CARSON, Compassionate Action 000
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, Costly Grace 000
11. Narratives of Life: Understanding Ourselves 000
WALTER WANGERIN JR., The Empty Manger: A Christmas Story 000
EDWARD E. ERICSON JR., A Father to the End 000
Telling the Story: Two Student Narratives 000
ANNA SCHEMPER, Fathers 000
LIZ SENEFELD, Hail Mary 000
REGINALD GIBBONS, Discipline 000
12. Telling the Truth in Literature 000
H. R. ROOKMAAKER, Letter to a Christian Artist 000
THOMAS HOWARD, On Evil in Art 000
NANCY M. TISCHLER, The Christian Reader 000
EMILY GRIESINGER, Why Read Harry Potter? J. K. Rowling and the Christian
Debate 000
THEA VAN HALSEMA, Moral Magic? Ethics and Harry Potter 000
13. Language and the Liberal Arts 000
The Living Word: The Bible in Translation 000
RITA DOVE, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians 000
HENRY ZYLSTRA, A Vital Language 000
ARTHUR F. HOLMES, The Liberal Arts: What and Why? 000
I. M. CROSS, You're Still Failing 000
14. Living in the Environment 000
WALLACE STEGNER, Wilderness Letter 000
LYNN WHITE JR., The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis 000
CHARLES DARWIN, Natural Selection 000
ANNIE DILLARD, The Fixed 000
ALDO LEOPOLD, The Land Ethic 000
JAY VAN ANDEL, No Silent Spring 000
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Brute Neighbors: The Battle of the Ants 000
Rhetorical Index

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