In the World

In the World equips readers to become better writers. It also introduces quality writing with forty classic and contemporary selections from writers such as Augustine, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Donne, Henri Nouwen, Philip Yancey, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Walter Wangerin Jr., and Charles Colson. This second edition contains a completely updated and revised rhetoric section and added contemporary essays that represent a broad range of ethnicity, gender, and point of view. Book jacket.

Donald R. Hettinga is professor of English at Calvin College.

Introduction: Reading and Writing as a Christian	p. 9
Writing
Good Writing: An Introduction to Rhetoric	p. 19
Invention	p. 27
Structuring the Thesis	p. 31
Coherence	p. 39
Revision	p. 45
From Working Outline to Outline	p. 67
Documentation	p. 73
Reading
Defining a Worldview: Religion	p. 91
The Age of Reason	p. 94
The Nature of Vitalism	p. 109
Worldviews in Conflict	p. 120
A Place to Stand	p. 129
The Small Touch of Grace	p. 140
Men Have Forgotten God: The Templeton Address	p. 145
Living Ethically	p. 155
Vandalism of Shalom	p. 158
On Good and Evil	p. 175
Why Get Married?	p. 182
The Death of Infant Doe: Jesus and the Neonates, Mark 10:13-16	p. 189
A Quiet Conversion	p. 201
No Man Is an Island	p. 207
Confrontation with Suffering	p. 209
In Defense of Pain	p. 212
The Exact Location of the Soul	p. 221
Who Is in Control?	p. 227
My Bones Are Vexed	p. 232
Compassionate Action	p. 238
Costly Grace	p. 241
Narratives of Life: Understanding Ourselves	p. 251
The Empty Manger: A Christmas Story	p. 254
A Father to the End	p. 263
Telling the Story: Two Student Narratives	p. 271
Fathers	p. 272
Hail Mary	p. 277
Discipline	p. 282
Telling the Truth in Literature	p. 303
Letter to a Christian Artist	p. 306
On Evil in Art	p. 312
The Christian Reader	p. 317
Why Read Harry Potter? J. K. Rowling and the Christian Debate	p. 324
Moral Magic? Ethics and HarryPotter	p. 347
Language and the Liberal Arts	p. 355
The Living Word: The Bible in Translation	p. 358
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians	p. 367
A Vital Language	p. 378
The Liberal Arts: What and Why?	p. 383
You're Still Failing	p. 395
Living in the Environment	p. 401
Wilderness Letter	p. 404
The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis	p. 410
Natural Selection	p. 417
The Fixed	p. 423
The Land Ethic	p. 430
No Silent Spring	p. 436
Brute Neighbors: The Battle of the Ants	p. 440
Rhetorical Index	p. 445
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