Knowing Christ

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Summary: Moving Christ from Head to Heart
Review: In this book, evangelical theologian Alister McGrath appears to be making a case to Christians for moving the location of one's knowledge of God from one's head to one's heart. He does this partly by recounting his own personal spiritual journey and partly by writing a gentle apologetic for why simply having "sound teaching" or "correct doctrine" isn't all there is to being a Christian.

Using the classic evangelical cry of "relationship with Christ", McGrath explains why this relationship rests in our hearts and in our every-day experience rather than in our heads. Then he goes further to help his readers by providing examples of different ways that Christians encounter Christ in both our lives and in our theology.

Although McGrath is a respected academic theologian, this book is not for academics but for the "person in the pew". I found the chapters on the different ways of encountering Christ to be inspirational and worthy of meditation. One caveat: people averse to evangelical terminology might find this book slightly off-putting; most evangelicals should love it.