Aquinas

History demonstrates that wherever the cross is planted, theacademy follows. But history alone cannot demonstrate why thisis-and must be-the case. Green engages theology andphilosophy to prove that the Christian vision of God, mankind, andthe world provides the necessary precondition for and enduringfoundation of meaningful intellectual life.

The Gospel and the Mind, deeply rooted in Augustinianand Reformed thought, shows that core principles of theWest’s Christian inheritance-such as creation and theimportance of history, the centrality of a telosto allthings, and the logosand the value of words-formthe matrix of any promising and sustainable intellectual life.

More than a lament of the state of the evangelical mind or evenan argument for the primacy of a Christian worldview, TheGospel and the Mindis a paradigm-shifting declaration thatthe life of the mind starts at the cross.