Jubilee - Summer 2022 - Digital Download / Online Reader

The Christian gospel and the person and work of Jesus did not neatly fit with the assumptions and ideological commitments of the Greco-Roman context where they were introduced. This is part of the reason why Paul describes the preaching of a crucified and risen Christ as “foolishness to the Greeks.” Joe expands on the uncomfortable relationship between Christian thought and Scholastic dualism that persisted for several centuries, culminating in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, and which endures in various forms in present-day Christianity.