Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ - 20th Anniversary Edition

by Dallas Willard

Overview

Renovation of the Heart is an influential contribution from the late Dallas Willard that continues to break ground twenty years after its first release.

Helping us to understand how character is formed and where Jesus does his most significant work on our spiritual and emotional health, this book changed a generation’s mind about what it means to follow Jesus—not a matter of sin management but a matter of drawing near and letting ourselves be shaped into the eternal people of God.

With reflections on the book’s impact over its life from family, friends, and admirers of Dallas, and supplemental resources for the first time in print, Renovation of the Heart will continue its ministry of liberation-by-formation for years to come.

Includes a foreword by John Mark Comer and an afterword by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641584425
Publisher:	Tyndale House Publishers
Publication date:	12/07/2021
Edition description:	Enlarged ed.
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	96,104
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword John Mark Comer vii

Prelude 1

Chapter 1 Introducing Spiritual Formation: The "Beyond Within" and the Way of Jesus 5

Chapter 2 The Heart in the System of Human Life 21

Chapter 3 Radical Evil in the Ruined Soul 41

Chapter 4 Radical Goodness Restored to the Soul 59

Chapter 5 Spiritual Change: The Reliable Pattern 75

Interlude 93

Chapter 6 Transforming the Mind, Part 1: Spiritual Formation and the Thought Life 95

Chapter 7 Transforming the Mind, Part 2: Spiritual Formation and Our Feelings 119

Chapter 8 Transforming the Will (Heart or Spirit) and Character 145

Chapter 9 Transforming the Body 165

Chapter 10 Transforming Our Social Dimension 185

Chapter 11 Transforming the Soul 207

Chapter 12 The Children of Light and the Light of the World 227

Chapter 13 Spiritual Formation in the Local Congregation 245

Postlude 267

Afterword Natasha Sistrunk Robinson 271

Dallas Willard Discusses Renovation of the Heart 273

Notes 281

Scripture Index 291

About Dallas Willard 299

What People are Saying About This

J. P. Moreland

From the pen of one of today’s most insightful spiritual instructors, Renovation of the Heart is a book that must be read by all who care deeply about the life of discipleship unto Jesus. Rooted in a deep yet clear and understandable analysis of the human person, powerful guidance for discipleship sprouts forth on every page.

Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

[Renovation of the Heart] has blessed me as I continue to lean on the Cornerstone, who is able to renovate old and broken-down things, to refine and bring about something new.

Os Guinness

Once again we are in debt to this modern master of spiritual life. For all who are tired of formulas and clichés, for all who are frustrated by the failure of systems and revolutions, Dallas Willard’s explanation of the cultivation of the heart is fresh, practical, and timely.

John Mark Comer

Every one of Willard’s books is a masterpiece, but the book you are about to read is in its own category.

Richard J. Foster

No one has thought more carefully than Dallas Willard about the human personality and how it can be transformed into Christlikeness. I give my highest recommendation to Renovation of the Heart.