Sublime

In the 18th century itself, William Paley (Natural Theology; Evidences) argued for the soundness of the biblical witness—both as to God’s hand in nature and as to the soundness of the New Testament portrait of Jesus;9 and Thomas Sherlock pointed out, in his legally orientated work The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus, that people

Today, blindness to the truth about the human person has led to a crisis of family, community, and opportunity. But then as now, we see clearly the Church’s latest intellectual and cultural challenge: not primarily the nature of God or redemption, but of man and human flourishing.

New Testament scholar Craig Evans says:

But he and Keller both see a limit to how much longer secularists can demonize the religion of our Western inheritance.