About the Author
Bradley G. Green (Ph.D., Baylor University) is Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition at Union University (Jackson, Tennessee). He is also one of the co-founders of Augustine School, a Christian liberal arts school in Jackson. He has written essays and reviews for Touchstone, Chronicles, and International Journal of Systematic Theology. He has also written Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy: Engaging with Early and Medieval Theologians (IVP, 2010) and Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine: The Theology of Colin Gunton in Light of Augustine (Wipf and Stock, forthcoming in 2011).About the Book
This book comes out of years of thinking through the nature of Christian faith in its relationship to learning. Teaching in a university setting, and having had the opportunity to found a Christian school, I have mulled over for some time the relationship between the Christian faith and learning, or in the terms of the title of the book itself, between the gospel and the mind. This book is rooted in an observation and a question. The observation: wherever the cross is planted, the academy follows. That is, when the Christian faith takes root in a culture, inevitably there emerges forms of intellectual inquiry and activity. The question: why? What is it about the Christian faith which encourages and fires the life of the mind? In this book, across five key themes, I try to wrestle with that question.