7 The Wisdom and Power of God

The Wisdom and Power of God

In the early centuries of the Christian church, as the Greek world became Christian, a group of scholars now called “the apologists” arose and took up the daunting task of relating the new Christian faith to their Greek intellectual heritage. Their task, as Andrew Walls the
distinguished Scottish church historian has described it, was “to baptize their memories into Christ.”1 As the twenty-first century unfolds, Christian theologians of the global South are taking up this same important task…

Taken from Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey