Becoming Good

Building Moral Character

By David W. Gill

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Books
Length: 247 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: August 2000

ISBN-10: 0-8308-2272-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2272-0
IVP Order Code: 2272

Related Subjects

Character/Purity

"Becoming Good: Building Moral Character is a must-read and a must-make-part-of-your-life book for Christians working in the new economy. This book helps to lay the foundations and moral compass that can help us walk the path laid out by our Lord Jesus, instead of being lured by money and power into the tidal wave and rip tide of the new economy. This book is especially useful because it is written by a man who has a heart for serving God and has spent many years getting to know God instead of only studying God."

"David Gill has drawn on insight from Jesus' teachings in the Beatitudes to provide a practical framework for character in the 21st century. The anchors of Scripture come alive in this book as they have in his teaching"

"When all harbors appear open and every direction arbitrary, one's ability to steer his or her moral ship in our contemporary culture seems futile. But guidance is not so far off. Gill dusts off time-honored classical and biblical moral principles and applies them to our real lives in the real world."

"Whoever thinks ethics is a dry, theoretical subject has a pleasant surprise in store in David Gill's book, which is peppered with wonderful examples, stories and illustrations. Here we find dinner invitations as a form of peacekeeping and the Ten Commandments transformed into a restaurant menu."

"With Becoming Good, David Gill has issued a profound call for ethical renewal--a must read for biblical people in a society that has lost its moorings."

"David Gill presents a persuasive case for grounding Christian ethics in the theological and practical exhortations of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. If even a small number of Christian attorneys and litigants would allow their character to be formed by the Beatitudes in the manner that Gill proposes, the impact on the American legal community and the courts would be significant."

"David Gill's style is at once readable and challenging. Becoming Good is a modern call to the practical living out of our Christian beliefs."

"David Gill, in Becoming Good: Building Moral Character, provides us with insight and information about the formation and building of good moral character, based on sound biblical principles. The book is easy to read and understand for a layman like me. This book will be a valuable resource as I build a team and seek to do God's will."

"Becoming Good is a book that works! Reading it will inspire you to change, develop and grow in your Christian life. The theoretical study of the Beatitudes is supported by practical suggestions. This is a book that will be taken off the shelf periodically, referred to and used."

"What I really like about David Gill's way of presenting Christian ethics is his own virtuous style--a mean between two extremes. He is resolute (neither bombastic nor vague), collegial (neither too technical nor too popular) and soundly original (serving up neither warmed-up leftovers not cultic spin-off)."

"Being good in today's ethical wilderness seems like an impossibility. David Gill gives terrific insights into being confronted to the image of Christ. I especially like the way he explores new meaning in the familiar Scripture passages to teach how we can put on the character of our Lord."

"I am impressed that David Gill's book Becoming Good is in every respect a reflection of his personal life as a Christian intellectual and educator. In dialogue with students as well as in debate with fellow-scholars, he is intense, unpretentious and biblically motivated, and his book expresses these same qualities with authority and grace. The work is intense in communicating the urgency of Christ-centered living, unpretentious in presenting its ideas in a crisp and popular style, and biblically motivated in consistently supporting its arguments with the Scriptures."

"Becoming Good is a clearly written, biblically rooted, systematic and down-to-earth introduction to ethics--a perfect text for an adult education class or study group. It bridges the gap between formal theological education and the random moral exhortation Christians generally receive from the pulpit."

"Becoming Good is a powerful plea for the formation of Christian character with the gospel as the ruling criterion."

"In this era of globalization what is really important about David Gill's way of presenting Christian ethics is the link he constantly draws between the local, national and international communities to which we all belong."