Dallas Willard (September 4, 1935–May 8, 2013) was to write the foreword for this book honoring J. P. Moreland. Before he could do so, the Lord called Willard to his eternal home. In place of the foreword we offer this story, recounted to us by Willard’s daughter Becky.

Dallas was at a gathering somewhere, and someone said, “Dallas, wasn’t J. P. Moreland one of your students?” The answer was, “Oh, no. I was his student!”

We, like Willard, are J. P.’s students (indeed some of us are former students, but all of us, like Willard, have learned more from J. P. than he has learned from us).