The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking: A Student's Guide
By David S. Dockery and Timothy George
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As the first volume in a new series, this book introduces an approach to the Christian tradition that is not simply historical overview, but will also help students engage with contemporary challenges to their faith in various academic fields. This reader-friendly guidebook shows how to address those challenges by reclaiming the best of the Christian intellectual tradition. With illustrations, reflection questions, and a list of resources for further study, this book is sure to be a timely tool in the hands of believing students in both Christian and secular universities. Part of the Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition series.
David S. Dockery
David S. Dockery es presidente de Union Univeristy en Jackson, Tennessee. Es autor y editor de más de 30 libros, entre ellos Renewing Minds [Renovando la mente], Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal [El consenso y renovación de los bautistas del sur], Theologians of the Baptist Tradition [Teólogos de la tradición bautista], y Holman Bible Handbook [Manual bíblico Holman]. Dockery sirve en diferentes comités de educación y ministerio y es un editor para la revista Christianity Today. David S. Dockery is president of Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Renewing Minds, Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal, Theologians of the Baptist Tradition, and the Holman Bible Handbook. Dockery serves on several education and ministry boards and is a consulting editor for Christianity Today magazine.
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The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking - David S. Dockery
THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT TRADITION
THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE
There can be no Christian intellectual life without reference to the writings of the prophets and evangelists, the doctrines of the church fathers, the conceptual niceties of the scholastics, the language of the liturgy, the songs of the poets and hymn writers, the exploits of the martyrs, and the holy tales of the saints.
Robert L. Wilken, The Christian Intellectual Tradition,
First Things (1991)
All that is meant by tradition, then, is the faithful handing down from generation to generation of scripture interpretation consensually received worldwide and cross-culturally through two millennia.
Thomas C. Oden, The Rebirth of Orthodoxy (2003)
The calendars at the universities where we serve are filled with special events and activities, including dinners, banquets, receptions, and open-house gatherings. One of the privileges that is ours at the beginning of each semester is to invite new students to our homes, where we have opportunity to meet these young men and women and introduce them to other campus leaders. From these introductions, new relationships are started, and mentoring opportunities begin. At other times during the year, we open our homes for a seasonal open house, a gathering of faculty, staff, friends, donors, and trustees. On this occasion it is a treat to welcome them and introduce trustees to faculty, and staff to friends from the community. A joyful moment occurs for us when an interesting conversation develops and a new friendship is formed. Those examples seem to me to symbolize and demonstrate what is involved in the experience of reclaiming the Christian intellectual