Audio: Spiritual Formation in the Academy
by Dr. Dallas Willard
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| At the 2008 Midwest Faculty Conference, Dr. Dallas Willard, professor in the School of Philosophy at the University Southern California, presented a series of four talks on the subject "Spiritual Formation in the Academy." |
In the talks below, Dr. Willard defines spirit and spirituality and discusses the important role that practices play in forming our spirit, with particular regard for the role of spirituality within the university. The third talk addresses the nature of knowledge, why the idea of “Christian knowledge,” once a common term, has been banished from the university and from daily life, and four crucial questions that the university offers no answer for:
- What is the nature of reality?
- Who is really well off?
- Who is a really good person?
- How can one become a good person?
In the final talk, Dr. Willard provides a foundation for Christian disciples working within the university to begin examining their academic disciplines from a Christ-centered point of view, including examining three questions of the adequacy of knowledge within academic disciplines:
- Is it adequate to professional norms?
- Is it adequate to human need?
- Is it adequate to the subject matter?
To download each talk, right-click on the file name and choose the option to download.
Discipleship and Spiritual Disciplines in the Spiritual Formation (mp3, 32.7 MB)
Christian Teaching Banished from Knowledge (mp3, 29.5 MB)
The Disciple in the World of Knowledge (mp3, 34.7 MB)
Related Resources
Dallas Willard’s personal website provides a number of articles related to these talks, including:
Jesus the Logician
Spiritual Formation: What it is, and How it is Done
Language, Being, God, and the Three Stages of Theistic Evidence (an argument that we can know that God exists)
Observations on Current Leadership Issues in Higher Education
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