Does the academy pose a threat to the faith? Peter Williams (right), warden at Tyndale House, Cambridge, and Simon Gathercole (center), senior lecturer in New Testament Studies at Cambridge University, have reached the highest levels of scholarship and maintained evangelical faith. But how?
Justin Taylor sat down last month with these two accomplished scholars in Louisville and discussed the challenges of maintaining robust orthodoxy in academia and the importance of the local church. He kicked off the conversation by asking Williams to offer a short explanation for why we should take note of Gathercole’s research on the Gospel of Thomas.
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