Dallas Willard

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) taught in the Philosophy department at the University of Southern California from for 48 years, until his retirement in late 2012. He was especially interested in Edmund Husserl and his school of phenomenology. He is known and beloved by many Christians for his books on Christianity, discipleship, and the spiritual disciplines.

Learn more about Willard’s life, work, and books at Dallas Willard Ministries.

Click here to see a list of books by Dallas Willard

Links to posts and programs featuring Dallas Willard:

  • Merciless moralism bereft of moral reasons — Dallas Willard explores how moral passions on campuses — and elsewhere — are now immune to rational examination or critique
  • Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 149 — FEATURED GUESTS: Dru Johnson, Steven L. Porter, Reinhard Hütter, Matthew Levering, David Lyle Jeffrey, and Christopher Phillips
  • Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 100 — FEATURED GUESTS: Jennifer Burns, Christian Smith, Dallas Willard, Peter Kreeft, P. D. James, James Davison Hunter, Paul McHugh, Ted Prescott, Ed Knippers, Martha Bayles, Dominic Aquila, Gilbert Meilaender, Neil Postman, and Alan Jacobs
  • Humility and moral knowledge —
    FROM VOL. 149
    Steven L. Porter discusses The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge, an unfinished manuscript (which he helped to complete) by the late philosopher Dallas Willard. (22 minutes)
  • Dallas Willard on discipleship — Dallas Willard talks about how pastors should understand their vocation as one of making disciples — apprentices of Jesus — and that the training of pastors must include a commitment to pursue spiritual wisdom and faithfulness. (21 minutes)
  • Christian belief as real knowledge — Dallas Willard on the modern divorce between faith and knowledge
  • A false dichotomy — In this conversation from 2009, Dallas Willard (1934–2013) discusses the truth of spiritual knowledge and its epistemological validity. (63 minutes)