About the Author

Dallas Willard (1935-2013) was a professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for over forty years. A highly influential author and teacher, Willard was as celebrated for his enduring writings on spiritual formation as he was for his scholarship. His books include The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today?s Book of the Year in 1998), The Spirit of the Disciplines, Hearing God, Renovation of the Heart and others. His books have received numerous Christianity Today Annual Book Awards and other recognitions. 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.

Phillip E. Johnson taught law for more than thirty years at the University of California--Berkeley where he is professor emeritus. He is recognized as a leading spokesman for the intelligent design movement, and is the author of many books, including Darwin on Trial, Reason in the Balance and Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds.

Reviews

"A helpful, challenging resource. . . . Should have credibility even for readers outside [Johnson's] primarily Christian audience."
*Publishers Weekly, July 24, 2000*

"A helpful, challenging resource. . . . Should have credibility even for readers outside [Johnson's] primarily Christian audience."--Publishers Weekly, July 24, 2000
"As you read this book, look to the evidence and breathe the fresh intellectual air that nourishes genuinely opened minds."--Dallas Willard (from the foreword)