Learning the Self: Sources of the Self
My time as a student at Regent was most definitely a time of expanding my reading and study. Regent majored on the life of the mind and the Professors there were keen to introduce us to key primary source material at every turn. For this I am ever grateful. One of the men who had a key influence on my reading was Prof. Paul Williams. Two of the books that make it on to this list of 40 are there because of him, and this is the first. Before I move on to the book, I will add that Prof. Williams influenced me in more ways than this. He modeled for me a dialogical form of teaching and led me into a deeper understanding of leading and teaching well, specifically in a group setting. He deepened my appreciation of the carefully and wisely spoken word, both by example and by rebuke (for which I am still grateful). He welcomed me with gracious hospitality in several ways and thus shared with me the grace of God while showing me more of how to do the same. Lastly, he taught me how to make a...