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    Discovering the Christian Mind: Reason and Belief in Christian Confession
    Discovering the Christian Mind: Reason and Belief in Christian Confession
    Discovering the Christian Mind: Reason and Belief in Christian Confession
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    Discovering the Christian Mind: Reason and Belief in Christian Confession

    By Douglas Vickers

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    The relation between Christianity and the claims of reason has been at times sharp and conflicting and at times symbiotic. Noted scholars in the church and in the secular academy have asked what Christianity has to do with culture and what the Christian mind has to say, or should be saying, by way of critique in the marketplace of ideas.
    In Discovering the Christian Mind, Douglas Vickers argues insightfully that prior to the question of what the Christian mind should be doing or saying is that of what the Christian mind is. Vickers shows that the true identity of the Christian mind derives from the Holy Spirit's conveyance to the soul of the grace of regeneration. The conclusion that regeneration is prior to knowing, and that those know truly who know God truly, challenges thought and opinion.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateJun 24, 2011
    ISBN9781630875749
    Discovering the Christian Mind: Reason and Belief in Christian Confession
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    Douglas Vickers

    Douglas Vickers (PhD, University of London) is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts. Among his recent titles in theology are Discovering the Christian Mind: Reason and Belief in Christian Confession (2011) and The Cross: Its Meaning and Message in a Postmodern World (2010).

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