The Divine Conspiracy Revisited
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God by Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard’s excellent work, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God, was Christianity Today’s “book of the year” when released in 1998. Given the author and the acclaim for the book, it was often bought. Unfortunately, given its depth, it has not as frequently been read. I’ve taken hundreds of people through it in small groups, and it remains one of the most influential books in my own life—probably second to C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.
About half of the book is an extended commentary on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, as recorded in chapters 5–7 of Matthew’s Gospel. Willard argues that the “Sermon” is a sermon—a coherent, structured discussion of related topics, not simply a pile of amazing and memorable nuggets. And he’s careful to characterize the teachings in it as a description of “life in the kingdom,” not just another list of rules.
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D. Eric Schansberg Professor of Economics at Indiana University (Southeast) and the co-author with Kurt Sauder of Enough Horses in the Barn: Thoroughly Equipped Disciple-Makers and the Ministry of Jesus (Further Still Ministries, 2017) and of a 21-month discipleship curriculum, Thoroughly Equipped.
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