Gospel and the Mind

Brad Green is a friend, but even if he weren’t, I would be recommending his freshly published The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life . He keeps things focused on basics – creation and eschatology, the cross, the nature of language, and the nexus between ethics and knowledge, that is, the central epistemological importance of the heart. That is, the book really is about the gospel and intellectual life.

He’s read widely and deeply, in texts classical (Augustine, Aquinas, Lewis) and contemporary (Gunton, Wendell Berry, Walker Percy, Derrida). And who could – who would dare? – dislike a book that takes its initial cues about Christianity and the intellectual life from Robert Jenson?