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Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do about It

by Os Guinness · 1994

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Os Guinness traces the retreat of the evangelical mind and the dumbing down of evangelicalism through popular culture. But this book goes beyond mere analysis. It is a strong call for reformation of yet another place where evangelicalism in not evangelical enough.

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short · 160 pages

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