Think youve ever deceived yourself? Then this book is for you. / Think youve never deceived yourself? Then this book is really for you. / Socrates famously asserted that the unexamined life is not worth living. But Gregg Ten Elshof shows us that we make all sorts of little deals with ourselves every day in order to stave off examination and remain happily self-deceived. Most provocatively, he suggests this is not all bad! While naming its temptations, Ten Elshof also offers a strange celebration of self-deception as a gracious gift. In the tradition of Dallas Willard, I Told Me So is a wonderful example of philosophy serving spiritual discipline. A marvelous, accessible and, above all, wise book. James K. A. Smith / Calvin College / author of The Devil Reads Derrida / In this wise, well-crafted work Ten Elshof helps us to identify, evaluate, and respond to our own self-deceptive strategies, as he probes with occasional self-deprecation and unavoidable humor the bottomless mysteries of the human heart. His reflections on interpersonal self-deception and groupthink are especially helpful. To tell me the truth, Im glad I read this book. You will be too I promise. David Naugle / Dallas Baptist University / author of Reordered Love, Reordered Lives / Ten Elshofs discussions are erudite, biblical, searching, and laced with soul-restoring wisdom. All of this together means that this book is solidly pastoral. What it brings to us is appropriate to individuals, but it especially belongs in the context of small groups and local congregations. Dallas Willard (from the foreword)
Think youve ever deceived yourself? Then this book is for you. / Think youve never deceived yourself? Then this book is really for you. / Socrates famously asserted that the unexamined life is not worth living. But Gregg Ten Elshof shows us that we make all sorts of little deals with ourselves every day in order to stave off examination and remain happily self-deceived. Most provocatively, he suggests this is not all bad! While naming its temptations, Ten Elshof also offers a strange celebration of self-deception as a gracious gift. In the tradition of Dallas Willard, I Told Me So is a wonderful example of philosophy serving spiritual discipline. A marvelous, accessible and, above all, wise book. James K. A. Smith / Calvin College / author of The Devil Reads Derrida / In this wise, well-crafted work Ten Elshof helps us to identify, evaluate, and respond to our own self-deceptive strategies, as he probes with occasional self-deprecation and unavoidable humor the bottomless mysteries of the human heart. His reflections on interpersonal self-deception and groupthink are especially helpful. To tell me the truth, Im glad I read this book. You will be too I promise. David Naugle / Dallas Baptist University / author of Reordered Love, Reordered Lives / Ten Elshofs discussions are erudite, biblical, searching, and laced with soul-restoring wisdom. All of this together means that this book is solidly pastoral. What it brings to us is appropriate to individuals, but it especially belongs in the context of small groups and local congregations. Dallas Willard (from the foreword)
Gregg A. Ten Elshof is professor of philosophy at Biola University, La Mirada, California. His book I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian Life won the Christianity Today 2009 Book Award in the Christian Living category.
James K. A. Smith
-- Calvin College
"Socrates famously asserted that the unexamined life is not worth
living. But Gregg Ten Elshof shows us that we make all sorts of
little deals with ourselves every day in order to stave off
examination and remain happily self-deceived. Most provocatively,
he suggests this is not all bad! While naming its temptations, Ten
Elshof also offers a 'strange celebration' of self-deception as a
gracious gift. In the tradition of Dallas Willard, I Told Me So is
a wonderful example of philosophy serving spiritual discipline. A
marvelous, accessible and, above all, wise book." / David
Naugle
-- Dallas Baptist University
"In this wise, well-crafted work Ten Elshof helps us to identify,
evaluate, and respond to our own self-deceptive strategies, as he
probes -- with occasional self-deprecation and unavoidable humor --
the bottomless mysteries of the human heart. His reflections on
interpersonal self-deception and 'groupthink' are especially
helpful. To tell me the truth, I'm glad I read this book. You will
be too -- I promise." Dallas Willard (from the foreword)
"Ten Elshof's discussions are erudite, biblical, searching, and
laced with soul-restoring wisdom. All of this together means that
this book is solidly pastoral. What it brings to us is appropriate
to individuals, but it especially belongs in the context of small
groups and local congregations."
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