Fit Bodies Fat Minds is one of my favorite books because its message whacked me on the side of my head, helping me to see things differently. It is a thin book not because of a lack of content, but because of conciseness in writing.

Guinness elaborates on certain trends that devasted the Puritan mind that existed in the United States and left in its place a shallow Christianity. These trends include polarization, pietism, primitivism, populism, pluralism, prmatism, philitinism and premillienialism, all which are recognizable, prevelant, and revered in our Christian community today.

To Guinness, some of these trends such as pluralism are not bad in and of themselves, but the way that we have come to view them is. ( )

Shows a little bit that it is dated both with its discusstion of current events and its assessment that there is no serious Christian thinking going on. I believe that there is. That granted, it make some good points about what forces in American culture are driving Christianity to "abandon its mind." Was motivating and interesting, but I found him rather brusque and sometimes lacking sophistication in his points. Very much worth the read!

In this book, Dr. Guiness sets out to show the decline of the Christian mind in America in the past 200 years. He also reflects on the importance of the decline of Christian thought in American evangelicalism and its impact on Christian effectiveness in society.
Guiness sketches eight different ways in which the "high point" of the Puritan Christian mind has declined; Polarization, Pietism, Primitivism, Populism, Pluralism, Pragmatism, Philistinism and Premillenialism. ( )