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The Spirit of the Disciplines
Dallas Willard

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The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
by Dallas Willard
Harper and Row (1988); 245 pages

This is Willard's classic work on the spiritual disciplines. It is less theoretical than Renovation of the Heart and more theoretical than Foster's Celebration of Discipline. Willard spends the first half of the book building a biblical vision of the spiritual life and introducing the reader to the role the disciplines have played in meeting that goal throughout Christian history. He then describes the practice and purpose of disciplines for the Christian life.

Particularly in Chapter 7 (see below), Willard mines the New Testament for instruction in spiritual formation. The preacher could readily adapt one of these passages (such as Romans 6:17–18) as a sermon text. The book offers some practical application, though not as much as Foster's Celebration of Discipline.

1. The Secret of the Easy Yoke
   
   
2. Making Theology of the Disciplines Practical
   
   
3. Salvation is a Life
   
   
4. "Little Less Than a God"
   
   
5. The Nature of Life
   
   
6. Spiritual Life: The Body's Fulfillment
   
   
7. St. Paul's Psychology of Redemption—The Example
   
   
8. History and the Meaning of the Disciplines
   
   
9. Some Main Disciplines for the Spiritual Life
   
   
10. Is Poverty Spiritual?
    
    
11. The Disciplines and the Power Structures of This World
    
    

Dallas Willard (PhD, University of Wisconsin) is a professor and former director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California and author of more than thirty publications.

Related Books by Dallas Willard:
The Divine Conspiracy (Fount, 1998)
The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus' Essential Teachings on Discipleship (HarperOne, 2006)
Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God (InterVarsity Press, 1999)

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