The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking Quotes

“Since the time of Justin, the dialogue between faith and reason, between faith and culture, has reflected two essential characteristics of the Christian intellectual heritage: (1) faith seeks understanding; and (2) intellectual inquiry invites a response of faith.”
― David S. Dockery, The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking: A Student's Guide

“In his 1986 autobiographical work, Confessions of a Theologian, Carl F. H. Henry, dean of twentieth-century American evangelical theologians, lamented that several Christian colleges and universities had started to veer away from the centrality of their work, by and large giving up the cognitive focus on Christian thought in favor of Christian piety and activism.”
― David S. Dockery, The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking: A Student's Guide