The Christian Intellectual Tradition from the Reformation to the Modern Era

The Christian Intellectual Tradition from the Reformation to the Modern EraThis reader with commentary helps Christians understand and critically examine major arguments that have been made in the Western intellectual tradition through an examination of great texts. The book explores themes related to the natural world, human nature, politics, and God. The core of a liberal arts education lies in the debates made possible by a shared set of texts and questions. Combining their expertise in science, theology, political

and mission

and Greco-Roman literature and look at the context in which the New Testament writers retrieved these traditions to communicate their understanding of Christ

This major work will be valued by students of the New Testament and pastors alike

offering field-tested suggestions for contemporary churches

Distinguished Old Testament scholar Walter Kaiser believes that the Old Testament is sorely neglected today in teaching and preaching

What emphases and priorities should take precedence

These differences have caused denominational ruptures that have yet to heal

Bible teachers

Both those who find talk about the Holy Spirit congenial and those who would happily marginalize it will be instructed by this book

it elicits emotion--just like poetry

and cross-references to major Greek grammars

Graves clearly explains and illustrates this approach with fulsome discussions of five themes that are addressed in various ways in the Bible: personal responsibility